[Kelly]

Welcome, Jordan!
Very nice picture!

[Matt]

Welcome! Great photo!

[JPaige]

Here's some flower sans the shower, though there was a 60% chance of rain at the time.


Pansy by pinnicktabor, on Flickr

[JPaige]

I thought these buds were in the spirit of the topic.
Also, I thought they looked like wasp noggins.
Thanks for this monthly challenge. It encouraged me to dust of the macro and learn how to use it a little better.
I had found that the aperture mode was pretty useless with this lens as it would shoot everything with too fast a shutter speed rendering all of the photos dark. Shutter priority wasn't cutting it either so I went full manual mode and got pretty good with it.


Growing Wasp Heads by pinnicktabor, on Flickr

[Kelly]

OH yeah!

[Mikell]

Some nice entries in this challenge already...and there haven't been too many April showers yet.

Finally got a little rain this afternoon...so I thought I better take my camera out to my backyard and find a few shots to enter this month.
Rainy days are always good for taking pictures...if you can keep your camera dry. I was balancing an umbrella on my head while shooting and hoping the neighbours weren't watching.

[Kelly]

Marvelous moisture, Mikell. Lupine leaves and water drops were made for each other!

[Mikell]

I was thinking the same thing...those Lupines just attract the rain drops...so pretty.

[shutterbug]

This is my picture of a leaf with a ladybug on it

This was submitted by my daughter, she's only 13 and loves photography

[Mikell]

I love to see kids getting into photography...it will be a lifelong activity...once you start seeing the world as photo ops!
Very nice ladybug picture, Jordan.

[Mikell]

I forgot how many different kinds of Daffodils I planted last fall...they are bursting into blooming colour this week...and the rain makes the perfect time to take pictures of them.
Here are a few more.

[Matt]

great color and detail. No flowers around me, I'm going to have to find the time to seek some out. Anyone check out highland park recently?

[Mikell]

No flowers around you? Not even dandelions? ground cover/weeds? tree blossoms?
Flowers are everywhere right now!

I think you need to plant some bulbs next fall...they are the best thing about Spring.

[Matt]

I have only been able to enjoy my commute from and to work each day. I will be on the lookout for flowers while on the community hike Sunday, then will trample them before anyone else in the group has a chance to better me.

[hobkyl]

Those are beautiful Mikell!