nay. the first is desaturated (1 step), the second - color balanced (1 step), and the third one unchanged. i forget to ask you, what do you do for work currently?
that sounds pretty romantic. i think i'd consider being a gardener if it payed enough. i was the happiest, work-wise, when i worked as a janitor (street-sweeping). and today we visited a nursery with flower seedlings. so beautiful!..
Nothing romantic about being a gardener, and in fact no different to cleaning someone's house or business - except for having to do it in whatever the weather dishes up.
Running a nursery's not too bad though. (Which I've also done, which you'll know if you've read and remembered my bio (http://www.hi-toro.com/shareworld/general/bio.html).)
So, photos of old nurseries here (http://pics.livejournal.com/stillcarl/pic/0006x2a3)... The first two are from 1974. My parents had a market garden and nursery and I took over the nursery part of the business and that's what those two photos are of. The third's from 1977 and is totally my own nursery, in that I built it all myself. (And was situated elsewhere.) As you can see though, the move didn't change things much. ;-)
I did figure out how to build tunnel houses eventually though, and they're still standing, though moved elsewhere from there. In fact they're the two, little, 50ft long shiny ones, end to end here (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=-39.658071,176.865495&spn=0.001813,0.004393&t=k&om=0).
'tis very easy to start a nursery, if you've space for one. Just buy some seeds, plastic containers and dirt and you're in business. Add protection and heat as needed...
yeah, but working outside is good for health. another plus of physical labor is that you can think stuff over while working instead of instead of it. color balance!
Thank you! But they now look nothing like the photos do these days... ;-) (I must've switched film types in those 1974 photos, and surely not for the better. I still have the negatives, which are in a special negative album I bought to store them in, which has become a gooey mess due to the glue used to separate the negative sleeves going funny. Sigh...)
yeah, but working outside is good for health.
A fallacy. My knees have been done in by too much walking behind a mower (which I had to give up six or so years ago) and my hearing's damaged due to listening to too much machinery. Would you consider something to be healthy that makes you prefer silence over music - as in always?
you can think stuff over while working instead of instead of it.
Now that I agree with. And it'd be great, except your hands are always too dirty for writing your ideas into a notebook or tapping them into a PDA...
Wandering about with a camera around your neck gives you all you want without the minuses!
no, that's not romantic at all. i imagined something like, you know, pruning jasmins with a funny pair of shears while listening to birds. but what you said really gets me into a luddite mood!
If a gardener is needed, then it's usually for maintenance, which mostly means pulling weeds, raking leaves and softening up soil - or mowing lawns. Plus, yes, pruning and hacking back the overgrown plants, but that loses it's interest after the first few hundred roses and whatnot. Plus you're just another form of servant.
Better than dealing with office politics of course, but healthy and romantic? No.
Landscape gardening might be better, but you'd have to think about what you're doing then, which kinda loses the point unless what you mainly like thinking about is landscape gardening. (Also known as 'exterior decorating';)
Oh my god. It reminded me one friend who's keeping a "dacha", or "fazenda". It's a tiny plot where she grows tomatoes, cucumbers, papers, greens etc. Sometimes I go there to have a rest close to nature and help a bit. No fun at all!!!
oh, you're being very considerate! by the way, do you know that until recently i invariably read your name as 'stillcart'. that's another proof that my mind just isn't right to work as a translator.
btw, carl sounds a little funny in russian, because it's an old-fashion russian name, that could be prevalent, say, in 18th century, along with olympiada, karp, and sisoy. diminutive for karl in russian is karlusha. which is also a common name for crows in children's literature.
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:10 pm (UTC)You getting photoshopery with your pictures, just for a change?
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-13 01:43 pm (UTC)Still gardening.
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Date: 2007-04-13 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-14 04:09 am (UTC)Running a nursery's not too bad though. (Which I've also done, which you'll know if you've read and remembered my bio (http://www.hi-toro.com/shareworld/general/bio.html).)
So, photos of old nurseries here (http://pics.livejournal.com/stillcarl/pic/0006x2a3)... The first two are from 1974. My parents had a market garden and nursery and I took over the nursery part of the business and that's what those two photos are of. The third's from 1977 and is totally my own nursery, in that I built it all myself. (And was situated elsewhere.) As you can see though, the move didn't change things much. ;-)
I did figure out how to build tunnel houses eventually though, and they're still standing, though moved elsewhere from there. In fact they're the two, little, 50ft long shiny ones, end to end here (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=-39.658071,176.865495&spn=0.001813,0.004393&t=k&om=0).
'tis very easy to start a nursery, if you've space for one. Just buy some seeds, plastic containers and dirt and you're in business. Add protection and heat as needed...
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Date: 2007-04-14 12:33 pm (UTC)color balance!
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Date: 2007-04-14 11:05 pm (UTC)yeah, but working outside is good for health.
A fallacy. My knees have been done in by too much walking behind a mower (which I had to give up six or so years ago) and my hearing's damaged due to listening to too much machinery. Would you consider something to be healthy that makes you prefer silence over music - as in always?
you can think stuff over while working instead of instead of it.
Now that I agree with. And it'd be great, except your hands are always too dirty for writing your ideas into a notebook or tapping them into a PDA...
Wandering about with a camera around your neck gives you all you want without the minuses!
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Date: 2007-04-15 04:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-15 08:39 pm (UTC)Better than dealing with office politics of course, but healthy and romantic? No.
Landscape gardening might be better, but you'd have to think about what you're doing then, which kinda loses the point unless what you mainly like thinking about is landscape gardening. (Also known as 'exterior decorating';)
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Date: 2007-04-26 09:47 am (UTC)http://carrea.freehostia.com/net/l/0006x2a3.jpg
(I know how much you hate broken pictures V, so...;)
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Date: 2007-04-26 10:45 am (UTC)motorcar AND communism
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Date: 2007-04-26 11:35 am (UTC)Goodnight!
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