I meant to get up before sunrise but THAT didn't work so I did the next best thing---scurried out as I heard the children start to stir (ay-o.k.ed it with Larry the night before) and got away to a place called Lynch park. a wonderful park on the edge of the water. They have a central rose garden where there's a wedding almost every weekend in the summer....and I also stopped by my local nursery before it opened. they carry some of the most creative floral arrangements and freshest flowers I have ever seen (so much so we dropped $100 on Saturday my first stint gardening---funny thing is once you start---it's like cameras---you are always saying--oh just one more)
so enough blabbing here's some shots--- the best part...the camera never left manual setting... and I was much happier with the end result ( who would have thunk it) and I had minor post processing (cropping and one clone on a boat mast)