… the weather doesn’t really invite you to a walk,…
… you can still have a look around the jungle at my parents’ home,…
… where you can indeed discover pretty flowers like these orchids:
Nice weather + new camera = …
… much more photos than I am able to present here (and of course several from just testing, which wouldn’t be worth it). 
And nature isn’t all that green and in blossom around here yet; forsythia blossoms, for instance, are still closed. Well then, here’s a little selection – click to get to the flickr pages with larger versions:
Two crosuses on a not entirely clean traffic island…
On my Flickr page (archive 9 March) I got a few more.
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No too spectacular an image, but simply my Epipremnum – but it’s the very first photo with my new Canon EOS 40D (in full-automatic mode, with flash), ordered on Monday and arrived today (quite fast for an advance-payment order):
Click for large view – attention, 3.6 MB!
So let’s see how many hundred pictures the weekend will bring… 
Projekt 52 week 9: The color red
The topic of week 9 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
The color red
So I today took another picture of my Chrismas star which reached only second place, so to speak, two weeks ago for the “flowerage” topic – good thing that Sari drew this topic now and not in several weeks. And in the following weeks, I’ll try to be a little more creative…
Projekt 52 week 7: Flowerage
The topic of week 7 in Sari’s Projekt 52:
Flowerage
At first, I had thought about my Christmas star (Poinsettia) which still has most of its red bracts – but it doesn’t look that great and wouldn’t live up to its Latin name part pulcherrima. So instead of wandering around and shooting flowerage in other people’s gardens which is still a little sparse around here, I decided to take a closeup:
