Outrageous!

I'm not a huge fan of the rhodo, but this one is very gorgeous.
For over twenty years it was the last to bloom, when there was very little else, but in the last two years it's become one of the first.
Climate change?
Very strange, whatever.

Our photo group is looking at manual settings, and for the next week I'll be shooting exclusively using manual.
I know the theory, of course, and will usually use it at night, but it's not something I'm generally relaxed with, especially with street photography and events, where I usually use shutter priority, but it's good to be forced to do it.
Not surprisingly, I had several different versions of this, changing the settings.