Just in case you didn't see...

Remember when I posted about the spring photo contest?

Well guess what!!??

One of my pictures made it into the insert in the paper!! :) :) I didn't win top 3 though :( :(

Oh, well. I'm still happy!!

If you don't get the JI, here's the picture that was in the insert:

The caption was: A brilliant sun peeks through the lilacs in Heidi Beutel's front yard.

I'm happy today, how are you? :)

Spring Snapshot Contest

The Journal Inquirer is doing a spring snapshot contest. You could enter up to 5 photos. I entered a picture of a tulip.

We have some lilac bushes in our front yard, so I took some pictures of those and entered 4 of them.

The photos will be judged by some people from the Journal Inquirer. The top 3 winners will get a restaurant gift certificate.

I hope I win!!

Our first bulbs...

...and they are alive!

We planted some tulip and crocus bulbs last year before winter.

The tulips are doing good but the crocus are not doing so hot. The chickens scratching around in there probably didn't help!!

They are a little sparse right now, we should probably plant more :)

Don't mind the gorgeous background. The tulips are planted right next to the dirty and rusty basement window :)

I played with the settings on my camera. This is the silhouette setting...came out kind of cool looking. It darkens the background so you can't see the dirty stairs :) 

If anyone reads this and nows how to use a camera, can someone tell me how to get a closeup picture and still have everything else in focus. All my pictures focus on one thing and then everything else is blurred.