~swiss chard, Out-of-Focus~

~swiss chard~

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My daily 'camera time' is often early evening, before sunset, when I let the dogs outside for a good run.  They're busy - chasing each other, chasing anything, chasing everything - while I usually find something random that I chase with my camera - the edge of a leaf, a color, tiny hairs on the tip of a Salvia hidalgo.  Last year while living in the DC area I purchased a new Nikon - and more recently purchased a new macro lens that has been hard for me to get used to, much less master.   But I'm letting go of the desire to have a perfect image in perfect focus, and instead I'm enjoying the chase, like my dogs always do.

My current chase?  To see how many ways I can photograph swiss chard.  Soon it will be gone (gone = sauteed) and I'll move on to something else.

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Comments

[Marilyn Kircus]

How could you let Swiss Chard be GONE? In my last garden, in the Austin, TX area, I planted it in the fall, cut the outside leaves off all winter, then moved it to a partly shady site in the late spring. If fed us all summer as well.

[Pam]

Marilyn, I've not known anyone here along the South Carolina coast to keep chard all summer - but your post gives me hope! I'll definitely try that this year. If you can do it in Austin, it should work here!