A delivery was due today. I opened the front door to check that it hadn't arrived and noticed, lying on the ground in a recently-rare sliver of sunlight, a carpet of pink flowers that the Camellia tree had dropped on the lawn.

"Hmm, that looks nice", thought I, and I headed inside to get the OM-5.

The OM-5 still has the 8mm macro on the front. I love that lens to death, but it's not the one for this job. "Who shall I choose?", I ponder.

I had recently had another delivery. The 40-150 did not have the greatest trip to Perth at the end of May. True, it performed admirably in shooting the whole of the football match that I went there to see, However on the way there its custom Sensei lens cap (which unlike the standard Olympus one, actually clips to the lens properly... usually) fell from the lens at a train station on the way to the airport and fell onto the ballast alongside the tracks. Hmm, not going down there to get that.

Then when I arrived home – and this was my own stupid doing – I must have had something heavyish resting on the LH-76 lens hood at some point, which proceded to disintegrate as soon as I took the camera out of the car. So there's the 40-150, no cap, no lens hood, wrapped up in protective cloths. However... the replacement hood and caps arrived earlier this week, so we're good to go again.

I took it out and shot the Camellia Carpet. Not bad. Not bad at all.

But then I saw the sun hit one of the pink Camellia flowers that were still on the tree. "Mmm, I wonder..."

As it turned out, I liked that more than the carpet shots.

And thus... I have my PESO for today. Oh, and spring is in the air.