Mid-Winter in Northern Oz: Colour in the garden.

Wow Bernieh, there'snothing dull about these, they are so colourful. I wish I had these in my garden to look at during winter! I love the way you have presented the pictures, very eye catching.

You are very lucky.
You would not see any of thoes except the Violas in our winter gardens. perhaps the odd Geranium down south in a cottage door way.

Thanks Lily and Bjs - tried out the collage tool on Picasa and created these so easily. Technology is fun!

Lovely colourful photos. Well done! Must see if I can get that Picasa. Leave me alone and I'll play for hours :-)))

Bigbumblebee - Picasa is a free download from Google. It is serious fun - hours and hours will suddenly disappear from your day!!

Oh no not more disappearing hours lol ! Gorgeous photo's Bernieh :)) You are so lucky.

What a Bunch Of Wonderful Flowers/Plants the Photos are a great way of showing them @ their Best Bernieh :)

Great blog with all those flowers

some winter, brilliant photo's think i will try this Picasa.

Amazing Bernieh, wonderful pictures! I have EXACTLY the same plants growing and here it is summer, it's a topsy turvey world we live in. I'm going to jump on the bandwagon on the collage thing, you should be on commission for picasa! Thanks for the info, nice blog :)

Wonderful collages of fantastic collection of flowers Well Done!

Wow lots of lovely colour in your garden.....lovely pictures....

your winter garden is like our summer one..lol
great photos...

Lovely flowers and colours...
especially like the violas :o)

I'm with you, Terra - and the geraniums - and the petunias and nasturtiums. Like the sound of picasa but there are not enough hours in the day now.

pisca sounds good to me too. i will look into it in january when i got more time...lol

Very nice. I like your collages. Your winters are very colouyrful :o)

super Bernieh only just got to grips with photos maybe like sandra i'll give picasa a shot in january!!

enjoy

Lovely photographs but it takes me all my time to work out my Olympus prog, that came with my camera so I,d better master that first...

Thanks to all - I've been laid up with the flu (and of course I'm sick during the school holidays) and being a bit bored, what better way to pass the holidays than fiddling with technology. If you google 'Picasa' you'll find where to download it free and there's even a youtube video that shows you how to use it!! It's provided lots of hours of fun - and makes me feel a little better about spending the holidays at home!!!

Yes Neellan and Lincslass it's little and not too often when it comes to absorbing the technology stuff isn't it. I need to do each thing quite a few times to remember how and I usually write it down. Picasa looks great.

That's exactly how I do it too Lily2 - lots of short attempts and I write down how to do it as I go.

Lovely collages, Bernieh! I've been using Picassa practically since it came out. But I haven't tried my hand at making collages. I've been printing a caption onto the photos for some months now but have 1000s of photos & there is no quick way of doing the captions, each has to be written out & then pasted onto the photo. You can change the colour & even the angle at which it is displayed. I've done it vertically & at different angles but only used black or white lettering. I now tend to upload the photos from my digicam or phone camera to a folder on the computer then I start up Picassa which copies them into its own programme where you can then make changes. It will automatically make a copy of any photos you modify & keep it in a folder within the original folder - therefore it's important to keep your photos organised into folders.

Thanks so much Balcony - have to fiddle a bit more with Picasa to learn about all it can do. Yes - I've learned the art of keeping photos organised into folders as I was finding it so difficult to remember where everything was.

Nice one Bernieh... The collage was a lovely surprise..might have a go myself...:>)

Wonderful way to brighten a winter! Your own pics are marvellous, loads of winter colour there. Fab way to show us them! Many Thanks for the lead to Picasa - you're a real star! :-)

Thanks Motinot and David - definitely have a go at Picasa. It's lots of fun and you can create some lovely things.