Yay!

Hello there. Here are a couple of photos I snapped for Elizabeth. It was easy to get a good shot with her as my model :). I'm trying some different editing in photo-shop using luminoscity layers and pushing beyond where I normally take my midtones and highlights.

Spring is just around the corner and my hyacinths are already starting to pop out of the ground--not good!! Wednesday night I covered them with a plastic sheet in hopes they aren't going to freeze their *bulbs off. It would be sad if the flowers didn't bloom next month, the aroma is amazing plus its great for the aesthetic beauty surrounding my house ;). Its crazy they still bloom, they were planted at least 5 years ago by the elderly couple who lived here before. Hyacinths are native to the eastern Mediterranean region, here is a story about the flower:

Ancient Greek legend describes the origin of the Hyacinth. Two of the gods, Apollo and Zephyr, loved a handsome young Greek called Hyakinthos. Apollo was teaching Hyakinthos the art of throwing a discus.
Zephyr, who was the god of the west wind, was overcome with jealousy and he blew the discus back. It struck Hyakinthos on the head and killed him. From his blood grew a flower, which the sun god Apollo named after him.

Check out a couple of pictures from last year.