Whenever I reach for my new digital camera, however, it constantly reminds me that I am as unskilled a photographer as I am a brain surgeon. I had wanted to take magnificent portraits of my dogs, for one thing, but I usually end up with something like the one below when I load the images into my computer:

So today I decided to shoot the hibiscuses in Elizabeth's front yard.



It's hard, I've learned, to fuck up flowers.