Behind ...

Am feeling behind on a variety of photographic fronts: haven't posted last week's gallery and haven't been spending an hour or so per day on reorganizing the files - without which the whole change over from date to category is fairly useless. Sigh, can't tell if it is a time issue or i'm just lazy - probably some of both.

We have an Amaryllis blooming and i've, again, trying to capture some of its bloomin' center. Here's the first effort:

It came out pretty (click on it to see it in large form) but the stamen and pistil could be sharper so i'm gonna tackle that shortly. This is a 40 photo image.

In the backyard, there are more moving critters (which i love seeing) and the first below has taken me a variety of shooting to capture. It is very shy and runs aways at the slightest noise:

A groundhog. There are a lot of them in Asheville. In the top image you see its paws just below its chin. It ate constantly and always seemed to have its mouth full. It was eating a particular plant, sorta a weed with purple flowers, not clover; at least not the clover plant that has been identified to me as clover. Will look up the plant he is eating.