Here is a true & funny story that happened tonight. I played in a wonderful golf tournament today and came home about 3 pm all windblown and hot. Darwin was backpacking last night and this morning and got home about noon. We ran a couple of errands and at about 6:00 were getting around to dinner. Darwin had turned on the grill and I stuck some smart chicken hot dogs in the microwave to defrost. Now that is a super Saturday night meal!
Kevin calls from Bread & Cup wondering if I can be spontaneous and come down and take some evening pictures tonight. I say that I can come down as soon as we finish dinner - Darwin had just started cooking the hot dogs. Kevin called right back and said that if Darwin wasn't too attached to the hot dogs that he'd feed us tenderloin. Hmmm....this or that.....well, we chose that! That was seriously delicious!!!
I'm starting to think about going to Yellowstone. Last year at this time we were in Alaska! What a fun memory. I own a macro lens, but I don't think it is going to go into the back country with me. I'm trying to keep my camera kit down to 8 lbs! That will include my 40D body, 10-22mm lens and 70-200mm lens - that's it! One of the things that you can do in good light is add an extension tube to the 70-200 and that makes it a pretty decent close-up lens. I haven't used it a lot, so I thought I'd better start practicing. I went outside and look what I found in my planter! Insects....and soon to be more insects... I used ISO 800 and manually focused. I'm finding that I'm getting a lot quicker with the manual focus. 
We went back to Bread & Cup tonight. Had a lovely dinner & took a few outside pictures. 
Wow, another night of really bad weather. I need to start thinking....."oh, it's a storm - I might die - better get outside and take some pictures". By the time I thought of that tonight, a lot of the weather was past. But, more is coming and so we will be sleeping in our basement tonight.
