MARILYN CORNWELL: Marilyn's Photos - July 29 2025 - It is Greek Yogurt for the Windows

There is another heat warning map on the Weather Network site today. I prefer the radar map with the clouds and rain passing over.

My greenhouse gets extraordinarily hot in the summer, even though there's a tree next to it and shades part of it. When the greenhouse was built, 100 years ago or more, it would have had a whitewash coating in the summer. It would have been calcium carbonate-based chalk agents and mixed with water then painted on the windows. I remember the brush strokes on the greenhosue windows of Niagara Falls. The products are still available and it looks like some of the commercial greenhouses might have shading paint.

So I wonder what the headlines are that one should coat one's windows with Greek Yogurt. Do you think it might attract insects and rodents? What about dogs - I expect Millie would bark at the smell and want to lick the glass. Do you think cleaning yogurt off a window will be easy?

This is just a silly hack, isn't it? But it got me thinking about the cooling methods. Because it is the roof that needs the shading, and that's way up there - 14 feet - I guess this was just a thought today. And looking into a silly hack.

Remember yesterday's Mingle Hill flowers? Here they are as the starting point for a series of abstracts. There's the original picture, a watercolour version that is abstracted and made high key (brighter). Then there's an example ofo one of the results of the Flaming Pear filters. Next are the variations using Diptic for the collage presentation, and one final version with further edits in photoshop with the French Kiss "brushes".

A great distraction for yesterday - another very hot day.