the world is coming to an end....

sorry. that's my melodramatic side coming out. the world isn't really ending.

but it is going to snow

all of these photos were taken in the past two days. while it was 48 and 53 degrees.

that's right. record setting temperatures.

and 

now mother nature, who has developed a sense of humor, is going to dump five inches of snow on us. 

with blowing winds. and a high of twenty.

i don't like snow. did you know that.

anyhow

i have a new toy. it's a polarizing filter. 

i normally use UV filters on my lenses, but my friends at the camera store talked me into trying a polarizing filter on my 70-300. and guess what. i liked it.

i mean who doesn't love a new toy. especially a new toy for a camera.

{insert smile here}

want to know how to get a photo like this. 

first you have to find a weed or a flower that is being highlighted by the sun. 

this weed was highlighted to the point of being completely blown out, so i moved my ISO to the lowest number i could, which in aperture mode was 200. then i stepped down my exposure by one full step and then switched my metering mode to spot metering. 

have you ever met a milkweed, dead or alive, that you didn't just fall in love with.

me either

and

this little guy. well maybe modesty is overrated.

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these are non-lightroom 3 photos since our computer with that program is having a bit

of maintenance done. oh well.

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ps...send shovels