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WidsMob Montage is a Mac app (program) I discovered when it briefly became available as a free download instead of its usual price of up to $19.99  This is what I will be using for the next set of puzzle pictures starting a week on Monday under the title Monday Montage.

This is how it works.
First choose the background photo, in this case a Robin:



Next choose at least five other photos:

 

Tiny versions of these are used to build up a montage with the program choosing those with suitable matching colours for each position in the photo.

The end result being:



Some adjustment can be made to the number of columns of tiny pictures and their size.

Final output:



I'm sure they wont all be as easy to recognise as this one!

Saturday Stretcher

Finally got round to doing this.
Don't know why but a regular Saturday post seems harder to remember.

Last week's stretched photo was:



which Adrian, Bettina and Ragged Robin quite rightly said was a pumice stone:



I have no idea how long this one has been in the family but it still gets used from time to time.
As always, thanks to all who had a go.

This week's photo may well be the last of this series for a while. Most stretched photos I take are far too obvious. The turntable needs to revolve faster so I will have to sit back and have a think about that. I do have a new program for making a different style of puzzle photo which I may well try out next time but for now here is the latest stretched photo for you to identify:



As ever if you would like to have a guess please leave it in the comments.
They will be revealed, along with a 'proper' photo of the object, next Saturday.

Friday at the Flicks

 

Another one bites the dust.
The tree just past the end of my garden damaged in the recent storm is no more:



That video was compiled with about 2300 photos. One taken every 5 seconds.

Some photos:
 

Things Are Looking Up

After 'the Beast From the East' and storm Emma things are looking up, here anyway.
It seems almost eerily quiet after a couple of days of gale force winds.
With the quick rise in temperatures most of the snow in the village has gone already:






Back to normal this evening. 7C and it's raining!

Returning from our mid afternoon walk I spotted one lot of miniature daffodils in the front garden promising that Spring really is close by:

Saturday Stretcher

The weeks seem to be flying past at the moment.
Once again, last week's stretched subject was:



which was correctly identified as a clothes peg / pin by Adrian, Wilma and Ragged Robin:



Different colours registered by different cameras being used.

I think this week's stretched object may be a bit more difficult to work out:



If you think you know what it is please leave a guess in the comments.
They will be revealed, along with a 'proper' photo, next Saturday.

A Bit Precarious

Just looked out of the kitchen window to see:



Another part of the tree has snapped in the gusty wind.
This time resting precariously in the branches of another tree.
Will there be any left by the time the gales recede over night?

It might be just below freezing outside but the wind chill is -7C as we found out on our early morning perambulation to the village post box to send a birthday card.

A Near Miss

All day the wind has been gusting over 40mph.
Part of the large, lanky leylandii just past the end of my garden broke off:



It seems to have landed just behind my fencing, narrowly missing it.
There are two sections left which are taking a battering so I have fingers crossed that if they do come down it will be away from my garden and fencing. I am very pleased I had my leylandii removed a few months ago as these winds are forecast to continue for at least another 24 hrs..