Category: Leica

  • Noel Coward’s tribute

    Noel Coward’s tribute

    I have a friend that lent me this LP …. He had the fun to hear “Marlena” at The Café De Paris in London. One can still get the music on iTunes. “Live at The Café De Paris” Introduction By Noel Coward We know God made trees And the birds and the bees And the seas for…

  • 42 Fleetwood Cadillac

    42 Fleetwood Cadillac

    42 Fleetwood Cadillac – Found this one in an overgrown field, parked under some trees? San Antonio, Texas Leica M(240) with Summicron (II) 50mm ….my webpage go to jeffabt.com  

  • Bastille Day in Nacogdoches,Texas!

    Bastille Day in Nacogdoches,Texas!

    Bastille Day in Texas- Watched theTour de France – Abigail & Brett’s anniversary !    

  • A Photogenic Vegetable!

    A Photogenic Vegetable!

    Image Capture: Leica M9P, 50mm Summilux

  • Porch Roses

    Porch Roses

    How do you greet visitors to your front door? In the old days folks usually planted a rose that would say the first hello. There’s nothing like stepping on to someone’s porch and there to be greeted by the bloom and fragrance of a rose. Porch roses are roses that fit the purpose of growing…

  • Leica Camera $968,000!

    Leica Camera    $968,000!

       Leica Luxus I camera (1930)  
with 50mm f/3.5 Elmar lensand faux lizard skin body covering.    Read more on LeicaRumors.com  

  • The Last Fig Leaf

    The Last Fig Leaf

    The last fig leaf fell from my fig bush this past week, a sure sign that winter and a weather change is upon us. It’s as if the plant world is undressing to clothe itself in the gray nightclothes of winter. With the recent cool, wet weather, I think we can safely say summer is…

  • Hope – Despair not!

    Hope – Despair not!

    Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary of 1747 defines hope as “the expectation of some good; an expectation indulged with pleasure…hope is that pleasure in the mind which everyone finds in himself upon the thought of a profitable future enjoyment of a thing which is apt to delight in.” Gardeners do all they do (and I stress…

  • Victorian Era  Tropical Plants

    Victorian Era  Tropical Plants

    Earlier this summer my wife and took a long drive to the East Coast to visit with family on Saint Simon Island off the coast of Georgia.