business park trek ala spring

This post is a product of procrastination, exahaustion & sunshine.

Procrastination, because, well... its what i do ;) I am supposed to be on a plane in ten hours and I have yet to pack (I do have my clothes picked out; isn't that the hard part. really....) so I am drinking wine, eating grapes & editing pics. (fyi... the drinking wine part is the cause of this rather wordy post. brevity and bordeaux aren't good friends. dang, I should have drank more when I was in grad school - those 12 page papers would have been a piece-o-cake.)

Exhaustion because a crummy cold and extensive super-multitasking at work are wearing on me. I wanted to enjoy the liberty of being single with no dependents and head up to the tulip fields after work, but my to-do list at work had other plans for me. I am pooped and the thought of driving (solo) 50 miles up I-5 is pure craziness.

Sunshine because, as I was watching tv, I realized that, much like attending daily Mass, I am way too young to watch Evening Magazine when it is sunny out. I had to get outside & enjoy the fabu spring weather.

I did something unusual for me; I went for a photo shoot with just my camera, cell phone & keys (oh and a few kleenex's). That is it - no bag, no bff the 50mm, no cokin filter (which was a bit limiting, but I survived, eh?), no cheese OR carrots. It ended up being a pretty enjoyable trek through the business park. I took over 50 frames, but a lot of them turned out kind of crummy. I was trying a bunch of different settings, so it is to be expected. I am not bummed out about it. Actually, as I got home, I laughed a little bit thinking about how sometimes my frames remind me of a Magic 8 Ball... a bridge, a field, a duck, a path of cherry blossoms & roadside deflector construction thingy.

oooook... here are the pics! aaaaww snap.


the bridge
the bridge over the creek always catches my eye. Today's interest was on the line formed by the cross structure and the faint clouds in the distance.

random trunk-na

this was my first trip around the business park with my 18-135mm. I had fun exploring my new world of 135mm.

and, since I didn't bring my bff the 50mm with me, I took this one by setting my 18-135mm to 50mm. I think my bff would have been a bit crisper, with the ability to go to f1.8, but I am happy with the bokiko.

one more

just when I thought that my interest in spring blooms had expired, I found my self taking pictures of sweet little petals again. they are so vexing! I have a confession, though. I wanted to try to capture falling petals, so I shook the branches of nature a bit. I didn't want to disrupt them, too much (I felt kinda guilty...), so I don't have any quality pics to share.

Oh! look at that! my glass of chateau vieille tour la roche is quite empty.... and my bag still isn't packed. thank you for checking out my pictures and reading through my overexplanations of a trip across the street. I am bringing my little Canon to DC with me; I am already thinking about the random pics that will be gracing my sd card soon.

oh! and one more thing!!! I saw TWO cute little bunnies!