The first lily actually bloomed yesterday but I already had a photo. But today I took a shot of that gorgeous deep red flower. I love how we get such deep red lilies. I really wonder what we will see this season because at the end of each season we go around and cross pollinate our lilies so that next year we get some different looking ones. This ends up being my favorite time of year to take photos because I love macro and I love what I get from flowers.

Gas is about to go over $4.00 a gallon and it seems that every site I go to someone is talking about how high the gas is and what to do to beat the gas prices. I even found myself looking at the Smart Car website. Seriously, they are tiny little cars but I don’t care if they get good gas mileage then I hope to help out my commute. I was also thinking that there are not many of them on the road so the car might be a great way to promote the blog as well. Everyone will be looking at it so why not throw up my url and a graphic or something. I’ve looked around for the actual miles per gallon but I cannot find the accurate results. Some sites say 60mpg some say 40 and some say 31. Which is the correct one. Who knows. But there is a dealership in Warwick RI and I may pay it a visit for a test drive for the hell of it.

The other thing I’d like to find out more about is the Can-Am Spyder, this vehicle will be in Transformers 2 and it looks so strange and interesting that I had to look into it. There is a dealership near me in Easton, MA. So I think I should pay them a visit for a test drive as well.

I transferred all of my photos from the laptop to the desktop and they almost all have their GPS data recorded so I can start uploading them to Flickr. Both sets (California, Half Moon Bay and the Cape Cod Lighthouse tour) will be up soon.

I also need to get started researching some of the top earners on the internet. These bloggers will be part of a panel at IZEAFest 2008 and guess who the moderator will be? You guessed it, me. I hope that you are thinking about going to IZEAFest 2008. You can sign up by following the IZEAFest 2008 links.

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This morning when I got into work I was walking to the kitchen to get a drink of water. I noticed the black bird darting around the tops of the power lines and then I saw the hawk. It looks like the hawk had brought its kill to the top of the power lines. And it looks like the black bird wanted a piece. It kept dive bombing the hawk. I had my camera bag with me because I have a new camera bag/computer bag and I wanted to have the two rented lenses with me to take a few shots of my desk. Tomorrow the lenses go to Andrea for the rest of the week and on Friday we share them again for the balloon festival.

I did use the lensbaby 3g today a bit more, I’m still not that impressed. I think I could achieve the same sort of effect from a filter in Photoshop, that and having to switch out the apertures isn’t making this lens very friendly for me. I’ve certainly tried it out enough but haven’t been super satisfied with what I’ve gotten so far. Here is the latest.

Today also marks my Dad’s birthday. We celebrated yesterday but I also wanted to mention it on the blog as well. Happy Birthday Dad, I hope you were able to go on a nice long ride on your motorcycle.

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