For an even easier way to crop images in GIMP, use the Selection Tool:
1) Click and drag a selection over the area that you want to remain as your image.
2) From the Image Menu, choose Crop To Selection
3)You now have a quickly cropped picture in GIMP!
First day Jen and I have been out caching for awhile, so we def had to get back to this one. The past few weeks the Asian Gardens has had some rennovations done on it and we were hoping the find would be easier this time around. Beautiful oasis in downtown Des Moines, right on [...]
Middle of the day. Downtown Des Moines. Gritty. Hot. The smells of steel and asphalt assaulting the senses. We need shade. And we need it now. As is true with most of Des Moines, there are beautiful artworks in the weirdest of places. We steadfastly follow the GPS needle to this little concrete oasis:
We follow [...]
I signed up for a few days of volunteering with the Des Moines Sports Commission – hosts of the 2009 AAU Junior Olympics. The event will run from July 27th thru August 8th and there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are a few of the categories where volunteers are needed:
Athlete Registration
Baseball [...]
The other day, after finding the bluebirds nest ravished by a gnarly racoon, I thought for sure they’d move on to start their second brood somewhere else. Bonnie and Clyde don’t give up that easy it seems , because just a few days later, I see them around the feeders and the birdhouse. [...]
Well, I hid another cache recently! I volunteer, as you know, up at the Arboretum and there was only 1 geocache there. What?! 1?!
Now that is unacceptable! So, to inspire more people to visit the Arboretum, I hid a cache out there amongst the Oaks:
As you can see, things are getting rather lush out at [...]
Came home from work. Pretty average day. No weird “wildlife encounter” stories to tell. Um, whoops, I spoke too soon.
Went back outside to sit and drink a beer – watch the sun set – enjoy the birds at the feeder when what do I see scoot right in front of my big toe:
Yes, it’s a [...]
Ghost-like train rushing by a rural country road late at night. That’s what I like about living in Iowa. There is a simple, grounded beauty hiding in the ordinary.