Macro Monday

And this is why I didn't title my blog "Picture of the Day" this year. It's been about a week since my last post. Yikes! It's been a very busy week, though, so I kind of have an excuse. The yearbook is just about finished, and we hope to have a draft to the powers that be by Wednesday at the latest. I'm finally feeling better (that cold/sinus infection was nasty and really knocked me on my butt!) and am making it through the days without pharmaceutical help. Add to that the fact that Erin's on a short schedule at school for the rest of the week and that we leave on Friday for my parents' for spring break, and I guess you could say that life's looking pretty rosy right about now.

Anyway, this afternoon, my friend Kristi came by to work on the yearbook. Our plan was to merge her pages into my "master file," but for some reason, it didn't work. Her pages came through without any pictures on them - which kind of defeats the point of a yearbook, no? So we're going to try that again tomorrow. But in the meantime, Kristi had received a gift from the mail-gods today - a new lens! - so we made use of our downtime by heading out into my backyard to see what there was to photograph. My lovely purple flowers are in full bloom, so I spent a lot of time visiting with (and photographing) them. Yes, again. But I never get tired of it!

We also had some visitor, and I couldn't help but try to get good pictures of them as well. Not great, but I am still working on training them to sit still so I can get really amazing shots of them. All in good time...