After a year of thinking about this blog I finally decided to just dive in. No rhyme, no reason, no particular pattern - just a few of my first shots with a new digital camera.
A sweetgum tree in our backyard:

Backyard gazebo:

Wind chime near the kitchen window, sometimes peaceful, sometimes noisy:

Pretty, but I don't know what it is. My wife planted them in the backyard and they pop up in the spring:

In addition to learning how to use the features on this camera, I'll also have to unlearn some of what I know from shooting film for forty years and learn how to get what I want from digital. I will also try to learn how to use Photoshop.