I am running as fast as I can to get this baby in under the gate! It's 11:45 and Steve and I just got home from our dear friends, Elizabeth & Richard, who invited us to spend the afternoon immersing ourselves in photography around their incredibly beautiful property! We had such a wonderful time, and then spent the evening having dinner and wonderful conversation. It was such fun!!

We got home just about 45 minutes ago, and I am STILL copying my 750 pictures over (:D) This beautiful skipper butterfly was my very first set of images and the third picture that I took! I'll look at the rest of my pictures tomorrow, but for now, I'm totally delighted with my first subject!! Hooray for cooperative skipper butterflies!! :D

I found this wonderful page of Irish blessings, quotations, proverbs and toasts, which are just brimming with goodness! tacomaweekly.tripod.com/Irish-Quotations.html

Note: This was the first day of Flickr's horrendous change and the beginning of the end for me over there.