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Happy Thursday!

I didn’t have any lunch engagements yesterday so I did one of my favorite things to do, grab a salad and a camera and go find something to photograph.

Out of habit I always go by the Duck Pond first.  I found a pair of Trumpeter Swans on the North side of the pond but they weren’t cooperating so I took a couple of images of them and then was going to move on as is my tendency.

For some reason this day, however, I decided to just stay.  I spent 40 minutes at the pond just looking and listening.  I enjoyed the peacefulness and was fascinated with the micro activity around the pond.  After a while I really started paying attention to the butterflies working the flowers.

I didn’t have my micro lens with me but any port in a storm so I used what I had, the 80 – 400 mm lens.  It worked pretty good.

After work I spent an hour and a half driving around Maquoketa making some images.  The City of Maquoketa is in the process of building a new website and they wanted some images showcasing the community.  I agreed to help them with some images so I spent some time photographing some of the places of interest around town for that project.

So it was kind of late when I got home.  Jeanne and I went out for dinner and I didn’t make good choices in what I had.  Can’t get by with that when you have Diabetes.  😦

That’s it for today.  I hope you enjoy the day.  Thanks for stopping by the blog and be careful.  The 14th anniversary of 9-11 is tomorrow.  Be aware.