In bloom (aka still obsessed with my camera)

When I came home last night, I noticed the sun was doing some pretty cool things to the tree in front of my house. I immediately ran inside, yelled something lame to Jack like "THE TREE LOOKS SO COOL!", grabbed my Nikon, and started snapping away.

I'm still a tad rusty with manual mode -- I learned the basics four years ago during an artsy semester in Venice but it didn't all stick. That said, I'm pretty pleased with these photos. (Mainly because they actually came out.)

Just don't ask me what I did or to do it again!