Midwinter
This is still my least favorite season, and I'm biding my time doing research for the next hiking season. I've uncovered a number of new leads on places to search for orchids, and I'm looking forward to trying a few of them out. My spreadsheet of orchid locations currently has 521 species sightings at 213 different locations. For the next few months, though, I'll have to content myself with my own plants living on my windowsills. Here's Blc. Liese Pigors x Lc. Drumbeat 'Triumph', flowering for me for the third year:
In the afternoon sun, you can smell them from a good eight feet away. Plus, that picture is among the first taken with my new EF 70-200 f/2.8 II IS USM lens, a 3.5-pound image-stabilized monster of optical perfection. I'm hoping to get into a little more people photography, and that lens is one of the best for people.
I'm sick. And I'm in the middle of a number of big projects at home and at work, and they're all slow-moving so I feel like I'm getting nothing done. I'm in the process of relocating my electrical panel out of the basement, so in the event of another flood it isn't so unsafe. Everything is waiting on the electrician and the parts, and then I'll finally be able to complete my insurance claim from Hurricane Irene. I'm also in the process of refinancing my mortgage, which involves a mountain of paperwork and a 2.125% reduction in my interest rate. And, it's nearly tax time.
In a month's time, though, there will be flowers in the yard and then it won't seem so cold anymore.
In the afternoon sun, you can smell them from a good eight feet away. Plus, that picture is among the first taken with my new EF 70-200 f/2.8 II IS USM lens, a 3.5-pound image-stabilized monster of optical perfection. I'm hoping to get into a little more people photography, and that lens is one of the best for people.
I'm sick. And I'm in the middle of a number of big projects at home and at work, and they're all slow-moving so I feel like I'm getting nothing done. I'm in the process of relocating my electrical panel out of the basement, so in the event of another flood it isn't so unsafe. Everything is waiting on the electrician and the parts, and then I'll finally be able to complete my insurance claim from Hurricane Irene. I'm also in the process of refinancing my mortgage, which involves a mountain of paperwork and a 2.125% reduction in my interest rate. And, it's nearly tax time.
In a month's time, though, there will be flowers in the yard and then it won't seem so cold anymore.