Yesterday, I worked out how to make mandalas from photographs using “The Gimp”:http://www.gimp.org/. I started with the instructions for making mandalas using Photoshop at “Earth Mandalas”:http://www.earthmandalas.com/how/. This mandala of six spokes is based on a “photo of my shamrocks”:http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/002566.html that I took in February, unlike the “mandalas I made last year”:http://www.stardel.com/dmnindex.htm which had five spokes.
Wallpaper
Saturday I became bored with my desktop wallpaper (which was one of my own photographs) and went surfing for something new. I found the site “Visual Paradox”:http://visualparadox.com/gallery.htm via “Google”:http://www.google.com. This site has a variety of images for wallpaper in various sizes, including a nice selection of alien landscapes. I saved several for future use, and my desktop now looks like the following:
Hap
After Hap finished playing in the water on Saturday, he walked over to the fence line to see why people were laughing at him.
Branches
Water play
On warmish days, Hap likes to play in water. Since it was a nice day, I put him in the horse trailer and took him to my trainer’s today so I could ride him briefly in the arena. She has a visitor’s paddock out front near her arena. Hap must have emptied twenty gallons from the stock tank in ten minutes. On a really hot day, he can empty a stock tank: using his head as a shovel to scoop water on his chest and front legs. I’ve even seen him totally submerge his head and part of his neck in the water.
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Southwest moonset
Goodbye Encyclopedia
In J-Walk Blog: Goodbye Encyclopedias, John Walkenbach posts about reading the encyclopedia for fun when he was a child. Hey, I though I was the only one who had done that. I won’t swear I read every article in our edition of Compton’s, but I read a high percentage of them.
Minor changes
This morning, I made some minor changes to my weblog, including a “Squidfingers”:http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/ inspired background that I created with “The Gimp”:http://www.gimp.org/.
Chinook Sunrise
BrowserSpy
BrowserSpy can tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Stuff like the version of your browser. What kind of things it supports and what it doesn’t support.
This site shows a lot more than sites I have seen before that tell about the browser and the operating system. (via “J-Walk”:http://j-walkblog.com/blog/)