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Paper Birch - White Birch

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Paper Birch or White Birch (betula papyrifera)

I was walking in my garden and saw some mushrooms on my birch tree, not the usual mushrooms at the side of the trunk, but tiny gray mushrooms on top of the old, death birch stem:

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Birch tree mushrooms: gray as autumn…

Nina Birch

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Nina birch: gray as autumn…

I was trying to find the real name of these birch mushrooms, but I came into a bunch of other birch stuff included birch people like…

Thora Birch

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Thora Birch in kind of black and white

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Thora Birch nude color or skin color dress

The men in the Birch family…

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Simon Birch in younger days :-)

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John Birch Society

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Dwayne d Birch : Shattered souls…

It’s quite striking how like birch trees, lots of the Birch people’s pictures dominate in black and white: I color I love in winter contrasting the blue skies, unlike other trees in winter having that dull gray greenish look.

River birch - Silver birch

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River Birch of betula nigra:
"black birch"…

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Silver Birch :
Another birch in black and white…

So what about my birch mushrooms?

… did you notice I didn’t actually find the name of the mushrooms on my birch tree? But let us end on a lighter note: literary with the song "land of the river birch"

Land of the river birch

Lyrics of this Canadian song and you can download the tune below…

Land of the Silver Birch Lyrics

Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will
Blue lake and rocky shore
I will return once more.

Refrain

Boom de de boom boom
Boom de de boom boom
Boom de de boom boom
Bo-o-o-o-m

Down in the forest, deep in the lowlands
My heart cries out for thee, hills of the north
Blue lake and rocky shore
I will return once more.

High on a rocky ledge I’ll build my wigwam
Close by the water’s edge, silent and still
Blue lake and rocky shore
I will return once more.

Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver
Where still the mighty moose wanders at will
Blue lake and rocky shore
I will return once more.

Download the midi tune: land of the silver birch

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saint nicholasYesterday night Saint Nicholas and his helper "Black Piet" have been walking over the rooftops of our homes and houses.

Quietly Black Piet descends through the chimney, reads the letters of the children that asked Saint Nicholas for presents, and as by miracle, Black Piet will provide the kids with the gifts they are asking for…

Yes, this Saint Nicholas looks like the well known SantaClaus, yet he arrives the 6th of December. In Spanish speaking countries you have a similar looking saint doing similar things, yet he arrives at the beginning of January…

Now if you go to Germany, you will find people dressed in bizarre straw outfits with strapped-on cowbells and furs, their faces covered with devilish masks… These traditional "Buttnmandl" runners shout and make noise to frighten people in the village of Bischofswiesen, in southern Bavaria. This pre-Christmas custom aims to protect against evil spirits in the darkest time of the year.

So in the end this again must have been a pageant feast that has been christened and lots its original value. Especially the Black Piet reminds me on the Bavarian "Buttnmandl" runners to scare of evil spirits at the end of the year. Which explains why nowadays Black Piet carries a bag to put in the children and scare the hell out of them when they misbehaved during the previous year…

As such, this originally very human friendly pageant feast turned out in a very frightening children disaster, although softened by the gifts these kids get each year…

It’s strange when people start fondling around with tradition until they don’t know anymore what they are doing…

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I have been playing around with my Paint Shop Pro, so this is the follow up of my previous Free Paint Shop Pro tutorial post.

I must say: the results are quite not so good as during the course… Most likely you cannot redo in 10 minutes what you learned in 2 hours…

Noelia’s first cut

Anyway: I started of with a picture of Noelia without a foot: that’s not a good idea to show Noelia in the middle of the tulip, as you really get the feeling that something got cut. And that’s exactly not what you are trying to do with good picture editing.

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Noelia has a cut foot:
Not really flattering, not for the tulip either :-)

Cut Noelia a bit more naturally

When you cut a person, try to use a cut that’s accepted. Lots of pictures come in an oval frame, so I tried to do just that.

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Noelia got a better cut :-)

Noelia with cut foot but cut outside the frame

I used the same cut as in the first picture, but made sure the cut foot this time was outside the complete picture, so it more looks like an amateur picture where mostly the part of the legs are gone…

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Noelia looks perfect :-)

Shhhh…, it’s just an illusion that Noelia looks good. I made sure Noelia’s eyes and mouth are clear (so 3 layers: 1 for the picture of the tulip, one for Noelia and one for Noelia’s head). I should have done another layer so Noelia’s arms were more visible, but knowing the eye and psyche of people: we tend to focus on the face only (that is when our mind is not distracted by sexy thoughts…).

Summarized: I like the 3th picture the most because in the 2 first pictures, cut people look quite like a Halloween scene…

Conclusion: I need more Paint Shop Pro courses and experience!


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