Home from Mexico

We arrived home from Mexico yesterday but it has taken me until now to catch up with the mail, the laundry, shopping for groceries and the banking. And there are still quite a few things for me to do but I am tired so am sitting down for alittle rest. I downloaded my pictures and there are quite afew of them but I thought I would post a couple that I took while fiddling with my camera one day by the pool. I had my instruction book with me as I find it difficult to just lay by the pool and do nothing. I was changing settings and taking pictures of the hibiscus flowers. I also figured out how to take photos with the timer on!! That actually took me awhile and that frustrated me because I could do it in a couple of seconds with my little point and shoot camera. But I am so determined to learn how to use this new camera and all it's settings. I have decided that it will be a long learning curve!!! So, these photos were taken one right after the other but on different exposures. The darker one is more the truer colors but I was experimenting. I wasn't going to take my new camera with me but then thought that I would have lots of time to take photos. I don't really know where the time went but I didn't have as much free time to waste as I thought! I ended up taking alot of photos on the auto settings because I didn't want to miss them and I would need too much time to try and figure out what settings I actually needed. I really need to practice. So, Julie, we will have to get together sometime and do a "walk about" but now that I have become conditioned to warm, sunny weather, guess we will have to wait for spring!!!! Our evenings clouded up regularly so I didn't get a chance to take alot of sunset pictures. I was really looking forward to that because there are some phenomenal sunsets in Puerto Vallarta over the ocean. We will have some beautiful sunsets right here in the prairies too so will have to catch some of those.