Playing with the macro setting

A gift from a dear friend, close up (you really want to click the image on this one to see the larger size):


(December 29, 2005, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT)

I'm so happy...the old camera just wasn't capable of this level of detail this close up...and the image is so crisp and clean...squee!

8MP of SLR = JOY.

Joy!

I got a new camera. :) Not just any camera, mind, but THE camera. The one I've been lusting after for months, the one whose constantly extolled virtues have been driving my husband mad...

I have named her Precious. For she is precious to me, and all those who follow in my boodline shall be bound to her fate.../Isildur ;-)

Look what she can do!


(December 28, 2005, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT)

Missed

The girls' garden bunnies didn't get put away before the snow fell. So now they're snow bunnies.

Snow bunnies

(Back yard, 12/14/2005)

Perspective is everything

The shortest day, or, the longest night

(front yard, 12-21-2005)

Sunrise at 7:48 am; sunset at 4:34 pm; and a lamppost replaces the sun.

If you take the time to look...

it's amazing what you'll see.

Winter's nest

(Our back yard, 12/14/05)

Because it snowed

Because it snowed last night
and it's 17° F right now
and I'm already lonesome for summer.

(At the park, 8/14/05)

Good night

(coming home from the quarry, 11/10/05)

Another angle

(coming home from the quarry, 11/10/05)

November sunset

(on our way back from the quarry, 11/10/05)

After the famine, the feast?

How did a month manage to go by without any activity on this blog...

Cold November Grace

(at the quarry, 10-11-05)

The obligatory autumn leaves picture

Wow, where has the time gone?

(our backyard, 11/07/05)

Let there be light

(our front yard, 7/21/04)

City squirrel

(downtown Mpls, 9/30/05)

Vertigo

(at the airport, 9/24/05)

Bad blogger me

Been just a smidge busy lately... /understatement

Smaug's lair

(MPS airport, 9/24/05)

Okay, it's actually the bowels of the airport. But the ambiance is a bit like what Bilbo might have experienced while creeping down into that mountain, I imagine.

Another sunset

Untitled

(our front yard, 8/15/05)

Another lightning shot

You get two pics today since I didn't post any yesterday. :)

Drifting Lightning

(our front yard, 9/3/05)

Black swallowtail

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(our front yard, 8/9/05)

It's coming...

(our back yard, 2/14/05)

Another park shot

Sunset butterfly

(Eagan's Central Park, 9/2/05)

More scenery

Still

(at my parents' place, 9/04/05)

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. ~ Shakespeare, Macbeth, V.v.19-28

Scenery

After the storm

(our front yard, 7/21/04)

Dragonfly

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(our back yard, 8/28/05)

Playing around

Daddy's little helper, original & altered


(on the patio, 9/11/05)

Coneflower & bee

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( Eagan's Central Park, 8/13/05)

Nature shot

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( Eagan's Central Park, 8/14/05)

Daisies

Sentinels

(our back yard, 8/27/05)

And for comparison, Sentinels cropped:

Back home

Prairie Sunset

(at my parents' place, 9/4/05)

First post

What the heck am I going to do with a blog?

Sunset Storm

(by me, our front yard, 9/3/05)

Why, post pictures, of course!