Spring is here!

...and yet again I am overwhelmed with school work! I had intended to do my first outfit post but I haven't been feeling camera-ready lately. Perhaps after I get my hair colored and trimmed and my boyfriend arrives on Tuesday he will be kind enough to take a photo or two of me in my duds.

In the meantime I have been getting friendly with my new Canon Rebel XS. I got it for a steal at Target over spring break. It was marked down on clearance and I bought the display model and got the camera as well as all the accessories I needed for under $400. Not bad, not bad at all!

I took the camera outside in natural light for the first time today to see what it was really capable of.  I had only been taking pictures of my cats in my room up until today.

I took over two hundred pictures of all the daffodils in bloom and a few photos of the crocuses coming up. I went to load my photos and it said they had all transferred to my laptop so I selected "delete all pictures on camera", then the program froze, so I force quit. I went to check my new photo set and nothing was there! All but five of my photos were deleted from my camera. ::crying on the inside:: I guess I'll do it all over tomorrow. The flowers will be all dewy in the morning anyways.

However I did manage this one

I also started a small garden with my nephew. We are growing giant Russian sunflowers, watermelon, broccoli, zucchini, catnip :3, and strawberries. The sprouts on some of the sunflowers are up and the broccoli are coming through too. More photos to come. Enjoy these first days of spring.

Update:
Went out this morning around 8a.m. and got these. It is unusually warm all of a sudden today.. storms later possibly tornadoes? Boooo.

Don't mind my precious big boy, Stuart! He loves the camera.