Cloudy cloudy cloudy day

The weather made a drastic change the past 36 hours, and this was the start of the storm moving in. Puts me in complete awe of the power in nature and the world around us and with the depth of the level of the clouds I am reminded how very insignifcant we are in this universe.

Feeling patriotic...

This flag hangs in our living room window facing the street. It's been there since 9/13/01 and is a permanent fixture in our home. Unfortunately, as you can see on the left side of the photo, the bushes outside are partially obscuring the view of the flag from outside, but... that's soon to be remedied.

Wanting to take more patriotic photos, I went off on a photo hunt. First stop, the supermarket.





Everything is better with flowers right?


And... add balloons and you've got yourself a downright party :)









I suspect most of you have seen this yourselves at some point today, but even Google got into the act celebrating the birthday of our country's independence. Happy 4th of July to all.

the great bug hunt

Took these photos this past weekend outside my house with the macro lens. Looking at the photos of my hand holding this fragile little blossom, it is easy to identify the actual size of the insect in the photos although that macro lens sure makes him appear a LOT bigger threat :)

Settings - Aperture Priority, 1/2500 sutter speed, F 5.6, 60mm