Training for Daylight Saving Time

Today and tomorrow the Flower Show opens at 8:00 a.m., so if I want to get there ahead of the crowds, I really have to be on the road by 6:00. Tomorrow starts daylight saving time and Roy has to be out the door at 6:00 to catch a plane -- that would be 5:00 am by our internal clocks. I am not a great fan of such shocks to the system, which is why I got up 1/2 hr earlier today. Edited, with grumbling: last year Daylight Saving Time fell on the last day of the Flower Show, but this year it starts March 14...

Just a few photo fill-ins now. One exhibitor, the current flower arrangements, whatever individual plants strike my fancy.

Dodo's Nopalxochia is blooming, but not terribly exuberantly. It has lots of new growth, though, and has been seriously groomed. Pictures will be posted. Dodo herself is now getting around the Show on a Rascal, although I think she has some mobility -- she also has a cane.

10,000 Flickr uploads...

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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

I'm not there yet, but I'm sure that by the time I finish my indiscriminate uploading of Flower Show photos I will be. I have less than 400 photos to go to turn the odometer on 10,000 photos.

This is "Flowers: The Jewels of an Indian Wedding," the India showcase garden by Jamie Rothstein Floral Design. It's also the last photo in my Flower Show set of almost 500 photos so far, eep!, so if you click through and keep clicking on the left thumbnail you'll eventually come to the beginning. I'm only up to the Member Preview day, meaning I have several days of Flower Show to go. I missed one day entirely and another day I only shot about 8 frames, but I made up for it on the other days.

Jolly Mr. Nikon just keeps humming along. I have yet to run down the battery or fill the SD-MMC card, even though I shot almost 900 frames yesterday. It's because I was getting the hang of the "burst" feature, which is even as kightp said is a thing of wonder and beauty for getting the focus right on the second or third shot.

Today I think I also learned how to dial down the exposure a bit when I don't want the highlights burnt out. Too bad I didn't learn that before today's set of photos...now I have a re-shoot list of about 15 shots and I'm sure I'll think of more.