Of course it’s a made up word, after all, I didn’t major in English at college for nothing. 

With all the news and kneejerk reactions on YouTube about how Adobe is stealing your photos I thought I’d write about gardening for this week’s blog post. Perhaps it’ll ease your worries a little, if you’re concerned that it’s really happening. I don’t think Adobe is out to get us, but that’s my opinion, your’s may be just the opposite, and that’s okay.

I want to discuss a few things about gardenography. You might ask what, exactly is gardenography? Firstly, it’s a word I made up by combining “garden” with “ography.” I thought about using “Gardenology” as the title but that’s a word I invented when I was writing my gardening column. When I’d give a lecture about gardening I told folks that I was a “Gardenologist” just so it’d make them think I was important. Using the suffix “ologist” at the end of “garden” seemingly upped my level of gardening  knowledge to PhD status.  

Gardenography is different because it has the suffix “ography” taken from “photography” for obvious reasons here. I think it works the same way as the “ology” suffix. During the growing season I do a lot of gardening, so much so that at times I forget about photography all together. And this season is no different. We’ve planted tomatoes, peppers, peas, onions, lettuce, carrots, cucumbers and a myriad mix of flowers. All the usual plants and vegetables are grown here during summer, and we love our heirloom tomatoes.

My camera stays on the shelf in my studio during very sunny days, and when it’s hot outside. Unless I’m shooting a wedding. Should I start shooting more garden related photos and call myself a Gardenographer? Will it make me sound PhD-ish? 

Dads everywhere celebrate their day today and it’s a bit more meaningful to me this year because my birthday was on Mother’s Day (May 12) and I felt slighted. (Yeah, so what, I got my one feeling hurt.) So today I’m taking it super easy and doing all the things I want to do.

Mow the lawn at leisure, trim the hedges after that, weed eat around the raised beds garden, wash both cars, fix a stuck faucet sprayer in the kitchen sink, get softener salt and add it to the water softener in the basement, sweep the basement floor….

Wait a minute, I thought today was Father’s Day, not Dad Does It All Day! 

I hope you got a chuckle out of this week’s mostly fictitious blog post. The two images are real Dad’s Day gifts from my kids and I have some lemon cheese cake to eat later today from Mrs. Conner! 

Homeowners everywhere can surely relate to all the outdoor chores that need attention when warm weather arrives. It’s summertime here in western PA and along with gardening and mowing I have house cleaning chores.

No, I’m not talking about inside house cleaning (which I shamely admit to not partaking in as much as I probably should, thanks to an understanding wife!). I’m talking about what you see in the photos below. It’s a daunting chore on a ladder but someone has to do it, or do they? 

Green is best seen in the woodlands on trees and shrubs, not on the vinyl siding of my house. Thankfully, the green mold is easily removed with a pressure washer and I usually complete the chore in 2 days, 1 if I’m feeling unusually energetic. 

My photography most always takes a back seat during summer, but I do have a couple of wedding “chores” to take care of soon.