…flowers and a macro lens! I got my 40D back earlier this week and would you believe that it was repaired under warranty? I didn’t even have to pay for postage – it was written off as goodwill. Good will indeed – I’m one happy Canon customer right now! So with the shutter button fully functioning again, what could be better than taking the camera out to the flowers?

The daphne is blooming at its best and the scent is as sweet as ever. There’s something significant about seeing the daphne in bloom… it somehow feels that it opens the flower season, even if we have other flowers in bloom before it. Like the coltsfoot for example, I found a few of them in the forest so I was able to get down close and personal with them, something I normally don’t do because grouching down in a roadside ditch is a bit too exhibitionist for me. Even if I’m known to have done that, too.

I can’t tell you how happy I was about photographing flowers again. And this is just the beginning!

In the evening I took the Tricker and did some riding around to check out old favourite places that I hadn’t seen since last year. There’s this one lake which I think is nice… but somehow, all these years, I’ve missed a small tarn on the other side of the road. And now that I was there, I found that this little tarn actually has more potential that its big brother across the road. So that’s one place I’ll be visiting again!

Most of the lakes are already completely free of ice, but I found one shoreline with a little bit ice left. It was so lovely to sit there… listening to the sound of the slushy ice (yes, it does make a sound when the waves move it) and enjoying the warmth of the evening sun.

Now that’s a nice way to kick off May.