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Bananas

Digital art

Bananas 8AUG2014Sylvia Szucs created this original digital painting on You Paint, the package included on a Dell computer, inspired by her own plantain patch. Actually , this was an exercise in how to utilize this software which came as part of the computer packaging. I came back to an initial attempt to copy a picture, which was totally a disaster.  Then I just played with what the software will do.

Five comments:

  1. One has to learn how the software and mouse react.
  2. The capacity is not huge in this simple child’s You Paint software.   It crashes under too great complexity.
  3. I feel a little under the influence of various needleworks.
  4. This also came out partially stained-glass like.
  5. There are always constraints on what we do.  I do not mind some constraints.
  6. Removal of recent errors is easy.  Recent changes can be undone.

 

Bananas are not Victorian!

Garden

Though bananas are not exactly Victorian, they are a nice addition to the yard of the present day  Gulf Coast Victorian home. DSC00369

These bananas are plantains.   grown in southeast Asia, and are grown in the New World Latin America.  This clump fell ever about two weeks after this photograph was made.

They thrive on the Gulf coast.  It took some of our 15 to more than 20 foot tall plantains (bananas)  two years to reach their present height, after they died down to the ground after a freeze.   Before and since then, they have flourished in our backyard.  This year they have produced at least ten large bunches of bananas.

These bananas are actually plantains.  Plantains do ripen.   In our experience the fruit from these trees is is slightly tart when they are yellow with a little brown on the outside.  This fruit does not brown inside quickly, and makes fantastic plantain bread when they are “overripe” , or very dark on the outside.