Echinacea

Amongst the kit I was thinking of trading in when I was looking at a new camera on Monday was a 105mm macro lens that I’d inherited from Tess’s Dad; I knew it was a high quality lens but hadn’t used it much and, when I did, had difficulty getting it to focus.

The sales assistant at Jessops was plainly horrified that I was thinking of getting rid of it and pointed out that the reason I might have had problems with it was that Tess’s Dad had put a filter on it that was seriously reducing the width and its capability. He more or less insisted I keep it and try again.

So, here you have the result of my first attempts in the garden this afternoon. A friendly bee kindly decided to pose for me.

Apart from that it was a swim this morning and an afternoon spent replacing the chest freezer in the garage, which wasn’t exactly working efficiently since the lid became unhinged. This necessitated a reorganisation of the garage,  a rationalisation of my various stocks of kindling wood, throwing out various bits of rubbish we unearthed and two trips to the recycling centre!