This is one of the ones that was still still there when I went back a few weeks later. They grow fast!

So I finally started going through about a years worth of photos. I've been wanting to, but I'm lazy and then I take more and more pictures and the task just seems impossible. But what's the point in taking a million pictures and then not doing anything with them?? So I'm trying to make myself go through a certain number every week, at the very least enough so I can start posting on here regularly again.

This week I have lots of duck pictures. Our new apartment has a lake (or maybe pond? I don't know, a big pond...a small lake...it's somewhere in the middle) there are tons of ducks and I've grown to like them a lot. I think birds in general are really beautiful animals (but I fully admit I really don't have much else to take pictures of around here). Anyway, earlier this spring I discovered some ducklings and they are about the most adorable things in the world. Sadly, it seems many didn't make it as there were only two left when I checked back a few weeks later. But the mom had added two "bodyguard" ducks to help protect them so I think they made it. Pretty darn smart, if you ask me.

So I'm finally getting around to posting new pics instead of ones from my archives. We found a nature preserve that's only about 10 minutes away. It's weird because it's in the middle of this huge development of new condos and apartments and stores, but you turn down this little dirt road and all of sudden all the trees obscure that stuff and it's like your in a different world. It's pretty awesome.

This leaf looks like it's floating, but in actuality, it was stuck in a spider's web. I really like how this shot turned out.