Those Brits.
Make sure you have spare tissues, because now I’m going to show you last year’s winner. It wasn’t Connie Talbot, who was the favorite to win and was told that “it’s going to take something incredibly amazing to beat you.” After watching Paul Potts, it’s clear how he was indeed that something incredibly amazing – a regular guy with [...]

Not to worry, I wasn’t driving.

Look at that broad open road runway.

Sigh. If only public roads were this smooth and wide.

And I’m not the least bit allergic to it either.

Someone help me please.
 

I wouldn’t have to worry about human illnesses. I’d have super organs that don’t go haywire on me, and I could zoom back and forth from doctor’s offices faster than Simon Cowell can backtrack from comments that are 12 million votes removed from reality. Not that I’d need to anyway.
And I could have this view of Central Park any [...]

Here’s one of the many reasons I need to visit the allergist in the first place.

Pretty though, eh?
(I know it’s not nettle, but I thought “dandelionsome” was too cumbersome a word.)

… when they roll out the pink carpet for me when I come?

Straight from the camera:

Slightly processed:

Black and white (because I thought the colored version reveals how out of focus the flowers are):

And now I’m not so sure. I think I’m leaning more towards the color version again. But that’s me. Flaky and changeable.
How about you? How would you like your hummingbird today?

A small hummingbird’s wings can flap up to 80 times per second, and they have the unique ability to fly in any direction – even backwards.
This usually means that by the time I frame my shot and focus properly, the little sucker has already moved, leaving me to fumble with my camera trying to re-frame and re-focus.
It’s also quite fidgety, [...]