My backyard in December through my Nikon D7000 and 85mm/1.4g lens (Danville, CA)

my lemon tree

My 855mm/1.4g  lens I hadn’t unpacked in over a year since we moved to California!  Yikes!

Raindrops on purple smoke bush (Danville, California)

Good morning bird of paradise! (Danville, CA)

First springtime in our new California home…and excited about watching our first bird of paradise open up in our backyard! 🙂

Bird of paradise – springtime Danville, California

Danville, CA sunrise – October 30, 2014

Early bird gets…this sunrise view 🙂

7am Danville, CA Nikon D7000, 50mm/1.4 lens; ISO 400, f/6.3, 1/60 sec