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ybonesy - Beautiful, both the photo and the idea of writing with lavendar ink.07/31/2008 - 11:03 pm

Sumedh - That is one gorgeous beauty of a flower...07/31/2008 - 11:05 pm

Pat Denino - How intriguing! I wonder if the flowers already dried on the stalks will do…08/01/2008 - 9:06 am

Marcie - Thanks for the 'recipe'. I might just give it a try. Love how this image fills the frame. Colors are great!08/01/2008 - 11:02 am

Laurie - Scented ink sounds wonderful. I have never heard of it before. Lavender is so soothing. My mom always had lavender this or that bath products. She had a gentle lightly scented splash. I wish I could remember the name of it. What a wonderful post and memory.08/01/2008 - 12:40 pm

bookbabie - Very cool, I"ve never heard of lavender ink, but I do love lavender:)08/01/2008 - 4:55 pm

Robin - I can almost smell the lavender just by looking at your photo, Bo. Lovely. :)08/01/2008 - 4:57 pm

Marians - Yay! Interesting...08/03/2008 - 12:16 pm

Gandalf - Will this idea work with e-mail?08/05/2008 - 1:26 pm

QuoinMonkey - Bo, I love this. Thanks for the link. What better way to be a writer than to handwrite with scented ink. And how wonderful that your great grandmother made inks every summer. Fantastic.09/17/2008 - 12:33 pm

Best recipes from around the web » A Old Recipe for Scented Lavender Ink - [...] Bo wrote a fantastic post today on “A Old Recipe for Scented Lavender Ink”Here’s ONLY a quick extractI have had this recipe for many years, and have never made it, but maybe this August will be a good month to give it a try. My great-grandmother made scented inks every summer using a variety of garden flowers, including heirloom roses, … [...]08/01/2008 - 1:16 pm

pdenino - Dibs on the third floor for my studio... :-)07/31/2008 - 8:51 am

Marcie - She's definitely a 'looker'! Lovely old lady. Great detail!07/31/2008 - 10:57 am

amuirin - Yep, really great detail. I think it's neat you take pictures of striking buildings. One of the things I've always loved to do is drive through the venerable, winding neighborhoods in Washington Park (portland) and just look at the houses. There's some that look like they grew in their spot, little curved, organic looking cottages, then there's the huge mansions that declare 'I have lots of money, and I'm here to let you know', and then there's gems like this one. I wouldn't want to have to maintain them, but they're sure interesting to look at.07/31/2008 - 11:56 am

montucky - Beautiful old structures!07/31/2008 - 7:48 pm

Robin - Wow! What a great house. It's in wonderful shape, too.07/31/2008 - 9:45 pm

Gandalf - Beautifully rich detail in the house. The craftmanship is truly remarkable.08/05/2008 - 1:25 pm

ybonesy - This is great. It reminds me of those studies in white, except this one in black. What an incredible floor.07/29/2008 - 8:48 am

Marcie - Fantastic! Love the reflection on the wet stone.07/29/2008 - 9:20 am

Ron in L.A. - Realy, really nice Bo... R(etc... )07/29/2008 - 11:45 am

bookbabie - Dramatic, moody shot:)07/29/2008 - 3:52 pm

Gandalf - Wonderful composition; the shapes, the patterns, the black on black.07/30/2008 - 11:00 am

Marcie - Really nice images. For a moment - I thought the birds were real. I think Wright had the right cure for insomnia. How much better can it get than that?07/27/2008 - 9:52 am

montucky - The cranes (and their setting) are elegant!07/27/2008 - 10:59 am

Anna Surface - I really like these cranes! I would love, love, love to incorporate many of FLW's ideas/philosophy in implementing design for the whole of house to yard... maybe some clothing too. Why not? How interesting and resonate one would be with one's creativity and art to do so! A very creative and expansive man he was. Of course, I'm a huge fan of FLW. :)07/27/2008 - 2:22 pm

Bo - I love FLW, too. I just came from visiting his Dana - Thomas House in Springfield Il where I missed the last tour of the day by about a minute and was refused admission. Grrrrr! But I took 40 pics of the exterior so all was not lost. Though it will take me another year to get the opportunity to tour the interior, so I am sad. I really did want to see the display of dresses. As for designing clothing to wear in a FLW interior - OK, Anna, I concede that if it IS FLW, maybe it's OK... :-)07/27/2008 - 7:25 pm

visuallens - Frank Lloyd Wright special interest on Japanese art..Thanks for the info and the beautiful pictures on this series about Taliesin.07/29/2008 - 10:53 am

Gandalf - FLW is awesome. Nice shots & commentary.07/30/2008 - 10:58 am

Jules - Very cool photos, Bo. I've never seen much of that around KC.07/28/2008 - 10:53 am

Marcie - WOW! Well I guess the grafitti makes the railway cars more interesting. Love how you've captured it!07/28/2008 - 11:04 am

Robin - Very cool. I like graffiti. It often looks like a lot of work has gone into it.07/28/2008 - 11:12 am

amuirin - A graffiti artist might be the purest kind of artist. While a few might do it out of mischief, the main components must do it out of love, since someone with a spray can will often be offered scorn, but never compensation.07/28/2008 - 12:13 pm

Laurie - Wonderful subject matter. This is a nice collection.07/28/2008 - 5:34 pm

montucky - They do some interesting stuff, don't they! Too bad more of that energy and talent can't be better used.07/28/2008 - 5:48 pm

Gandalf - It's interesting how the paint is crackling on the box car.07/30/2008 - 10:57 am

acre - as a graffiti artist i love seeing pictures like this. in the graffiti world a real passionate graffiti artist is'nt out in the community to break the law and to do destruction but to become a known artist and get their name and art out to there to other people. is'nt that what every artist is striving for?08/30/2008 - 2:41 am

Gandalf - I guess it depends on how far you'd like to walk now a days. That's a neat shot of the megacone. You would likely have melting on more than just your arm, if you tried a cone the size of your photo. Where was this item located? Makes me a bit hungry, too.07/24/2008 - 9:15 am

Marcie - Nothing says summer better than soft-serve. Love how you've captured the cone. Really nice!07/24/2008 - 10:21 am

ybonesy - One of our rituals when leaving the Pecos Mountains is to stop in the town of Pecos at the local Dairy Queen. I had a Dilly Bar; the girls each a sundae, and Jim got the Buster Bar. Yum. Great giant cone. What a flash from the past.07/25/2008 - 9:07 am

Laurie - Now this isn't fair...I just got back from the dentist and I was told not to eat for the next 2 hours and nothing too cold or hot until tomorrow and of course I am starving and now also craving ice cream!!! :) We used to get the frozen custard from Kohr's on the boardwalk in the same cones and it was yummy but always melted faster than I could eat it too. This reminds me of that childhood memory and that of my kids getting them as well. Nice nostalgic photo.07/25/2008 - 11:21 am

Anna Surface - It is a nice nostalgic photo as Laurie said, and brings back memories. When I was a kid, it was always a treat to get a soft-serve from the Dairy Cream.... something like that back then. LOL The best I had, though, was the concretes, a frozen custard, in St. Louis. :)07/26/2008 - 11:15 am

Marcie - Nice detail of the ladder. Love the color contrasts. Well seen and captured.07/23/2008 - 7:04 am

Gandalf - I love the color & texture you capture.07/23/2008 - 12:42 pm

Stevo - Great shot. It would look great as black and white. Man, I miss seeing wood. Everything here is concrete.07/23/2008 - 5:18 pm

jpt - my fav. like kara walker's stuff07/22/2008 - 7:23 am

Marcie - I never could understand what motivates people to take these kinds of dare-devil risks. Without them - however - you wouldn't have the opportunity to have captured such a spectacular image. Really nice!07/22/2008 - 9:54 am

Robin - This is a very cool photo, Bo. Great capture. I used to want to fly through the air on the trapeze. I can sort of understand why someone would want to do this. Not that I have a desire to fly through the air on anything these days. lol!07/22/2008 - 1:17 pm

Laurie - I think the blur adds to the sense of this one. Nice tones.07/22/2008 - 1:19 pm

Gandalf - You wouldn't get me up there. I agree with Laurie's comment on the blur. Very cool shot.07/23/2008 - 12:39 pm

gypsy-heart - Good photos Bo! This one intrigues me..I like the mystery of the photo, and why someone choses to do this! :) Thanks for sharing.07/27/2008 - 9:42 pm

montucky - Interesting shots, Bo. They turned out well.07/21/2008 - 8:47 am

Robin - Fantastic shots, Bo.07/21/2008 - 8:55 am

HeyJules - Love those first two! I wish we'd get something like that around here so I could have some fun!07/21/2008 - 9:28 am

visuallens - Beautiful night shots07/21/2008 - 9:40 am

Anna Surface - Wow!!!! I really like these night carnival shots. Great whirly ride shot captured in a long exposure. My favorite is the middle photo of the ferris wheel because of the colors and texture within the backdrop of night. Excellent!07/21/2008 - 11:16 am

Marcie - WOW! I can go to an amusement park and not feel nauseous. The colors are fantastic. Really nice!07/21/2008 - 2:14 pm

Gandalf - I like the last one best, but they're all very intereting. The second Ferris Wheel is pretty neat because of the concentric color circles.07/21/2008 - 2:29 pm

bookbabie - Ooh, great pics!!!07/22/2008 - 9:05 am

Laurie - Great shots from the carnival/fair. Very colorful and they captured the flavor very well.07/22/2008 - 1:19 pm

Gaye Johnson - Now I can hardly wait for the carnival to come to town. I'll be there with my camera and your great shots in mind.07/23/2008 - 5:29 pm

nicole - These are lovely - great catches!07/31/2008 - 12:05 am

Anna Surface - Oh, what a sweet kitty! A wonderful capture of your black kitty, Jazz. :) I have a black kitty named Boo. I rescued him right before Halloween 15 years ago. And yes, it is very difficult to photograph a black animal.07/21/2008 - 11:12 am

Gandalf - Did you post the missing cat in the Wizard's Directory? Perhaps one is missing.07/21/2008 - 2:27 pm

Lesley Smitheringale - Barbara, what a gorgeous black kitten and a fantastic photo of her which made me melt. It's wonderful that you have rescued "Jazz" and I can relate to a cat sleeping on your head at night as I have one who does exactly the same thing!!! I think maybe cats who do this have "issues" or anxiety problems as Domino, my cat (suffering from stress as diagnosed by a vet) who does this has a lot of nervous issues. When she is particularly stressed, she will sleep on my head and lick my face, eyebrows, mouth, nose etc which is really annoying and I put this down to why I am permanently tired!! So Barbara, you are not alone - keep persevering and hopefully "Jazz" will relax more as time goes by and she builds up the trust and bond with you. Lesley07/23/2008 - 5:21 am

Deborah Register - Good for you! Kitty from the Shelter. Jazz will probably take the best pictures of black cats you've ever taken. She is a very pretty kitty! Thanks for sharing not only her picture, but the great thing you did. adoption. Deb07/23/2008 - 9:57 am

Preston Surface - Jazz looks like a sweet kitten. She will surely grow into her ways alright. What other names will you have for her? Anna calls Boo many names like when he is sad; Boo who who, his greek name is Boodsesus, his african name is Alabooboo, when he gets into trouble his name is Oh Boo. Lots of times we catch Boo Being Bad. Hehe I have a time photographing black dogs. Need lots of light.08/04/2008 - 8:56 pm