It finally feels like Spring is here! It’s sunny, warm and the magnolia in front of our sun room is blooming.

Taken with a Sony Alpha 500 and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.

I’ve decided not to post any pictures of the wedding itself. I know some participants don’t want their pictures appearing on the internet, and I imagine that there are quite a few that I don’t know, but who probably have similar issues. So to avoid upsetting anyone I’m, for the most part, leaving out any pictures of people.

These flowers formed part of the floral decorations festooning a number of columns in the room where the ceremony took place.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

The weather has improved a bit. At least it’s warmer now – so warm in fact that most of the snow has now melted. Thank goodness it was warmer too because it’s rained almost constantly for the past two days and if it had been colder all of the rain would have been snow.

But it’s still rather bleak and gloomy so again I’m posting something with a bit of color as a reminder that Spring is not too far away.

Taken in May 2013 with a NEX 5N and 50mm f2 Jupiter 8 (Former Soviet Union copy of the pre-war Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f/2 developed by Ludwig Bertele in the early 1930s).