Is that blue sky I see?

After many days of rain and snow and cold weather, we were teased with a little bit of blue sky this afternoon. I took that opportunity to play and take photos of the lovely crabapple blossoms in my yard. I am looking forward to some warmer weather this week so that maybe I can get back out in the yard to do some work.

I got down on my tummy on the grass today to take these shots - thought for sure I'd be wet after all the rain we've had the last few days, but suprisingly, it was already fairly dry. I did however, have my friendly cat Sassy climb on my back and sit there comfortably purring! The sun even came out for a little while! But we are back to rain showers again - hopefully later this week we'll get the warm weather we have been promised.

I wanted to take these shots of dandelions gone to seed as I am hoping that maybe I can crop a good one, do some Photoshop alterations and have a neat piece of art. I'm sure a macro lens would have been better, but I made do with my 18 - 55 mm. I shot this picture at 55mm, f5.6, ISO 400, 1/1250. I then cropped it. The black and white is cropped more than the original & I played with the grayscale of it. What do you think?

Rainy Day in May

it's been a rainy few days here in Alberta - thought I'd take a few pictures of the rain on the leaves - tried to take some pictures of raindrops landing in a puddle, but didn't quite work, so we'll go with this one. Everything will sure be green after this!