The puppies are growing up. And growing up means more lounging around. And maybe fewer pictures. But here are a few from the past couple of months.

Ok, so it’s been a month, but I went and visited James and Marin in Tucson. For those of you who don’t know, it never rains in Tucson. Ok, well, almost never. And there’s no humidity in Tucson. Which is to say, it’s one of the premier places in the world to store airplanes if you’re not going to fly them – in fact, the U.S. Government has a few parked there.

From a practical level, this means that one of the top air museums in the country is located in Tucson – the Pima air museum. This is a place my father would go and fill up a few 32GB memory cards. It’s a place I went and took about 60 pictures. But here are 5 of them.

A couple of new pictures, two from the great snowstorm of 2013…

After playing a bit with the 35-100, it’s certainly a nice addition to the kit. Quite sharp under good circumstances, the only nitpicks I would have center around the minimum focus distance, which is a bit too far for taking pictures of dachshunds. Still works reasonably well though. All in all, excited to be able to carry a very good ILC with two f2.8 zooms and a macro for less weight than my 70-200 f2.8.

I got my Christmas and birthday present yesterday, so thought I’d post a few quick shots…

Spent some time Wednesday with the new 60mm Olympus macro. Working distance isn’t great, but all in all seems like a nice lens… now if only there were more pretty things to take pictures of…

Spent some time in the Smokies today looking for leaves. Missed by a bit, but still some fun stuff there. Hope to take some long exposures later this week – if I can motivate myself to get back up there. Here’s to hoping?