day forty one

I almost screwed up, and procrastinated taking a picture in the daytime today.  It was already losing light fast in my house, so I rushed outside into my rather unimpressive winter garden.  I do have a really nice japanese maple that I will take a picture of soon, but I wanted to save that for another day. 

I live in the South yet hail from the North, and my Facebook wall has been completely bombarded with everyone griping about snow.  They are completely justified, and I am really hoping I don't get hit with a storm on my trip up north in a few weeks.  Anyway, taking a picture of my yard would probably elicit remarks along the lines of, "Pffft!  You can see the ground!" but nothing more than that.

However, these have been poking up in my flowerbeds for the past few weeks, haha!

Using kit lens 18-55mm at 18mm, manual mode, f/3.5, shutter speed 1/60 sec, ISO 800

I don't even know what sort of bulbs these will be.  Daffodils?  Tulips?  I should have taken better notice last year, since I wasn't the person who planted them, however, my stomach was the size of a large watermelon, and I didn't notice much in front of me, including my own feet no matter how hard I tried.  I'm grateful I didn't stampede over them.

Also, northerners, notice the leaves?  Sure, sure, you have to plow snow a couple of times, but we've been raking leaves since October... and they're still here.  And they're not even pretty leaves - they have an unattractive shape, and go from green straight to brown.  Some are still up in the trees, mocking me, and will not fall till the new buds finally force them off the branches.  I will be raking in the spring.  So, pffft!