organized chaos

My grandma got a new digital camera.  My grandpa says she is now a new woman.  I can understand.  She gave me her old one. 

It’s my first digital.  I really like my Canon EOS.  I inherited it from My Man when we got married and claimed it for my very own ever since.  Sometimes he takes pictures, too.  But only when I let him.

But, alas, film is too slow for this highly impatient girl.  I’ve belonged to the Club O’ the Right Now since infancy and have drooled over the instant gratification a digital camera would give me for a few years now.

It’s not one of those fancy pants cameras that you can do all the tricks with or attach the fancy pants lenses to, but it’s just right for me and what I want to do with it.  I can’t wait to read the booklet and find out all the tricks it does do.

Here’s some fun I had with it tonight. 

Here we have My Man wanting me to give him a kiss.  No thanks.  And The Cuteness with his new favorite things.  His fingers.

And this is the face Socrates gives me when I tell him “No more Playstation for tonight, you need to read a book.”

And Jackelope is just happy to have his picture taken because he is fulfilled for the night, having had a significant drop in adrenaline from waiting all week to open his presents.

A macro shot of my trumpet vine that opens in the evening.

Another of the same bloom.

And it’s interesting how much difference the flash can make. This was right after the previous shot, same light and everything.  It suddenly looks like night time.  Very dramatic I think.

Oh, and never ever eat this plant.  I realize you probably don’t go around consuming trumpet vine, but just in case, it’s poisonous.