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My fall-blooming azaleas have started blooming already! 2018-08-27-10-07-06.jpg
 
more wisteria blooming!

Much to my surprise, the wisteria on the back patio - which I was going to rip out this fall or coming spring as it will damage too many things there - has suddenly bloomed! Again, not big ones but OK for their first attempt. But I thought they only bloomed in the spring.

Think it read my mind and decided to bloom so I would have to re-think my murderous thoughts.

Why are they all upside down?????
 

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ARGGH! these photo's will drive me nuts!

Hope some of you can see them properly.

The last picture is this vine which loves to climb up the umbrella. Does it every year but this year out did itself. I will cut them off, of course but right now my back has me inching around with a cane.

I also can't let this vine get up on the roof to rip out the heat wires and create a dam for the winter snow and ice. sigh... ignorance and lack of forethought or research does not forgive.
 
I also have the Canon 1.4x extender which gets me a bit more reach (448mm full frame equivalent field of view). My 70-200 has image stabilization too, so with a little care, I can get decent shots in less than ideal lighting as long as the subject isn't moving too fast. This trip we mostly had blue skies, but the previous 2 years it was overcast and raining, so the IS was essential for hand held shooting.


My 70-200 is a Nikon f4 lens. The f2.8 is a thousand bucks more, and not as sharp as the cheaper f4. Besides, I'm never going to shoot a car at f2.8 -- half the car would be out of focus.

My f4 has IS, which comes in handy since I hand-hold. I do not like tripods -- I feel they limit my creativity.

CD
 
ARGGH! these photo's will drive me nuts!

Hope some of you can see them properly.

The last picture is this vine which loves to climb up the umbrella. Does it every year but this year out did itself. I will cut them off, of course but right now my back has me inching around with a cane.

I also can't let this vine get up on the roof to rip out the heat wires and create a dam for the winter snow and ice. sigh... ignorance and lack of forethought or research does not forgive.

Fixed 'em for ya. :flowers: What a beautiful home and yard you have, dragn!

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Very nice.

Southeast U.S.?

When will you be in NYC? PM me again, please. My brain is mush.

Marshall, VA.

I'll do that, Bucky!


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