Is it film when it’s not really film but an SD card? I think I’m dating myself with the terminology here.

Yesterday it was quite windy on the way home, but I was stressed, and taking pictures is a way to get out of myself and unwind. It’s a great way to decompress. (Although my hair was whipping around, I sure wish I had my baseball cap with me!)

There were absolutely no cedar waxwings to practice moving the camera around quickly (I wonder if they’ve begun to migrate south); and at first, I thought there was nothng there but those big catfish or whatever they are, swimming in the shallow water and splashing around in that gross water with the duckweed floating on top.

But then I noticed a couple of herons, and although I scared off some ducks, I also routed out that little green heron and he stepped out so I could get some very clear shots of him.

The big herons moved out of the way, but not before I got some fairly good closeups.

At one point, the little green heron guy was posing for me. He stayed still on this log or piece of driftwood for some time, just checking things out and moving his head around, and flicking his tail.

I couldn’t hear any noises out of him, but he opened his mouth at one point, so I was relatively certain that I was just too far away to hear the weird squawks. This bird makes some odd noises, even when comparing the sounds to heron squawks, the green heron’s are weird sounding to me.

I’ve also been noticing some wild yellow daisy-like flowers, and was thinking to myself that I should try and get some pictures of them.

Little did I realize when I was taking photos of these birds that I was inadvertently taking pictures of those yellow flowers.

They seem to be everywhere right now; I find them in the background when I’m focusing on other subjects! In trying to research exactly what they are, I am inclined to believe they are Coeopsis Daisies.

They take root on parkways between the grass and the curb, they take root on the roadside, they even take root on median strips, which is an impossible place to grow anything! These things have to be weeds, or else they’re very beligerent and stubborn wildflowers; unlike anything I’ve seen before with the exception of dandelions.

I love my canon elph, but it has its limitations. The panasonic lumix is the camera I reach for again and again.

I sometimes wonder after my husband gets his telephoto lens for the Rebel, if I’ll be able to grab that now and then in order to close in on shots that are out of my reach with the panasonic, but..in the meantime, I am thrilled at what I’m able to accomplish with the panasonic.

Capturing these images is fulfilling a dream of mine from childhood, when I used to daydream after looking at field guides of birds.