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You're on Candid Computer!

I've struck gold, or, well, I've struck red, in this year's sunflower crop. I had three productive red sunflower stalks (from about 100 seeds that were supposed to sprout red sunflowers). I just can't get enough photos of my gorgeous sunflowers this year!

I thought it would be really fun to put a smiley face in the middle of one of my gorgeous red sunflowers because red sunflowers make me so darned happy! I tried my hand at adding the smile via AI, particularly in the new Photoshop Generative AI, in which you start with your own image and ask the AI to improve it.

The results were mostly disappointing. I got a couple of cute images, but nothing was what I wanted. And who knew "smiley" is a bad word??? (I had to use "smiling" or just plain "smile".)

I tried all kinds of different combinations... jelly beans, gum drops, cranberries, yarn, yellow sunflowers, even toothpaste.

After running out of this month's AI credits in Photoshop, I decided to just do it myself in Photoshop, without any AI. Using entirely my own images, too. Finally got an image that visually says exactly what I wanted to say!

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Hummer Summer

The days are getting cooler, and the hummers have headed south. I'm anxious for snowflakes to photograph, but I'm going to miss the sweet birds I got to shoot through my bedroom window this year.

I'm going to miss the flowers. And the peppers! But I am planning to dig up a few of the pepper plants so I can try to keep them going indoors through the winter. I was able to enjoy homegrown sweet banana peppers on almost every salad for the last three months! And there are still enough left for a few more meals...

The birds, however, have not been too interested in my raised-bed gardens, thank heavens! Squirrels have been a nuisance and have robbed me of many tomatoes. But the birds have been sticking to the flowers, and it's been SO much fun to watch. I had no idea hummingbirds like sunflowers!

The goldfinches, I knew about. The hummers, though... what an amazing surprise! And this is exactly why I let sunflowers grow wild almost anywhere they come up!

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