Happy Birthday to me!

Today is my birthday. Over the next few days I'll post pictures of the cake and new nature pictures, especially those that herald spring.

Carolina Jessamine and Bees

Yesterday's Sunset and a bit of color in the sky

Ice crystal rainbow

Sunset

Whew! So much to do!

Since I joined Facebook I am preoccupied in adding friends and compiling albums of my best photographs. For this reason, and others, too, I will keep posting about my eventful Purim as I can, and more photographs will continue to come. At school, the grades had a decoration contest. Here are some pictures showing the walls of the high school wing, heavily festooned in decorations, some of them innovative:

Fifth Grade Wall Section
View down the hall (middle school and lower high)
8th Grade section (tilt head please)
Tenth Grade innovation: Upside Down Clown

Happy Purim (and a little nahafoch hu story)

As I was riding out on my bike to photograph people in Purim costumes, my camera, that I had just placed carelessly in my sweatshirt pocket, fell out onto the pavement. I rode back home, in shock, and only cried when my mom told me that $400 just went down the drain. After three minutes, I tried the "ON" button, and lo and behold, the camera worked. Great nahafoch hu case. My camera must be pretty sturdy to survive a five foot fall from a bike traveling at 14 miles per hour onto hard cement. It did incur some scratches, and the optical viewfinder is useless. The latter also jiggles a bit when the zoom goes back inside after being zoomed out. Otherwise my camera still works.