While visiting my in-laws, I happened upon this busy bee. Too bad I didn’t think to shoot some shots with a high shutter speed so as to “freeze” his wings while flying. Oh well, I’m still learning now that I have a camera that can get most shots I put my mind to.
Last year Beth planted a variety of lilies and hostas on the north side of our house. Traditionally, that side of the house has always been a hard place to grow anything. As these pictures show, things have definitely picked up this year. Good work, Beth!
Prior to the 1940s and 50s, clover was a common component of yard grass seed mixes. It serves to enrich a lawn’s soil with much needed nitrogen. However, it was at that time that seed producers decided to market clover as a weed. This in turn created a market for lawn fertilizers which add nitrogen to the soil due to the loss of clover. Fortunately, the clover in my yard is doing fine. 
Yesterday morning, Beth was able to get her petunias planted.
For those of you who aren’t in the habit of checking my Flickr stream, I thought I would share this slideshow of photos from my Friday Hike of House Mountain:
This week my new Nikon D90 camera arrived. Having spent the past seven years shooting over 15,000 photos with a simple point-and-shoot camera, it’s great fun having some real photographic horse-power in my hands. During a break in the workday today, I headed out to the mailbox to photograph some flowers Beth planted a couple of years ago. They just bloomed this morning, and it was a beautiful day for getting some fantastic macro shots.
It has been a while since I’ve done a mass upload to my Flickr photostream. Given the time lapsed, today I was able to upload quite a few gems from the recent weeks:
Thanks to Beth’s handy work last year, this Asiatic Lily is blooming beside our mail box.
Here’s a comp of an HDR image I created of a rose. The three images I used are in the column on the right.
Today I went outside to photograph one of Beth’s tulips using a new technique that I’m learning: High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). To get started, I read this tutorial and used some software called Picturenaut.