The macro lens I rented came (Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM), and today I got a chance to play around with it.  I went to my mom’s house and tried to take pictures of everyting.  This lens is amazing!  I’m in love.  If I had $470 to burn, it’d definitely be on my list of things to buy.  These are just a few of the many pictures I too.  They are straight from the camera, except for cropping on some.  The focusing could be better on most of them, so I’ll try again tomorrow.

My mom called and woke me up this morning as she went to work at 6:30 am, to tell me that it had snowed and maybe I should borrow my dad’s truck to go to school. I informed her that I don’t drive to school anyway, and take the MAX.

When I finally got out of bed at 9:00, there were still remnants of the light blanket of snow. There was barely any, but it was snow nonetheless.

As you can tell, I love me some macro!

It has been raining so much in the Northwest lately - rain, rain, and more RAIN (with gusts of wind).

A few times, the rains will stop, and as the wind blows, you can actually see some blue sky behind the gray clouds. I opened my blinds this morning to get some light into my bedroom, and was pleasantly surprised to see this:

It just looks so funny! The tree is pretty tall because the branches in the middle go straight up, but all the fruit is at the bottom. The wind blew all the leaves off.

Then I looked over and saw the Asian pear tree in the corner. It was almost completely bare, except for one fruit. Can you see it?

It’s amazing the difference from 2 1/2 weeks ago.