For my birthday Andrew and his mom gave me a macro lens, and it's amazing! It's a bit of a bittersweet gift since our really nice camera went missing, but it fits on my sister's camera and will fit on our old camera as well, so I'm still excited about it. It's a
Sigma 105mm macro lens. You can get a really close image of your subject without actually being
that close, but you can get a whole lot closer to a subject than with a standard lens, just a few inches away, and the detail is incredible. Here is a picture I took with it at the beach. I should have used a tripod, but the picture is still nice. (I had another flower picture here, but I deleted it because it was a little too blurry.) I can't wait to show you more pictures from the beach.
We're having a wonderful time at the beach! Edisto is a great beach vacation spot. When I was growing up we used to go to Destin, Florida sometimes for summer beach vacations. I loved going to Destin. The sand there is white and fluffy, and the water is clear blue-green, at least that's how I remember it. I also remember high-rise buildings. No high-rise buildings in sight here in Edisto. The shoreline is just dotted with cute beach cottages, some small, some large, with the Piggly Wiggly at the end of the road. Beyond heading to "the pig" (its unfortunate nickname around here) for that necessary gallon of vanilla ice cream to go with Andrew's peach pie, there isn't much else to do around here besides lounge on the beach with a book. It's pretty much perfect. Tomorrow, though, I think we might leave our flip flops at the beach and head to a most beautiful place.
