Hiya there everyone, before I start posting the pics That I got yesterday, I wanted to post this butterfly,butterflylayingeggs2  . If you look close you can see she is laying eggs, we were lucky enough to get lots of pics of her the other day when she was. Now on to my day trip yesterday.

We decided to go up to McCloud falls to get lots of pics, of course we had to stop back over and my roommates dad's place first to get pics of the dark purple tulips that just opened, deeppurpletulip20070 . Then we had some lunch and headed out of town. We Stopped at the Elementary school in Castella to get pics of Castle Crags, CastleCrags20070324_ , then onward the journey. We decided to take a side trip down ski park highway going to Mt.Shasta ski lodge, talk about great pics, Mt_Shastainclouds200 . We then moved on to the parking lot at the ski lodge to get more pics, MtShstaCluds20070324  , Mt_ShstaClouds200703 . The clouds were moving in and around Mt.Shasta when we were getting the pics, you can see some of the shadows of the clouds on the mountain. I love using zoom on my new camera.

We then left the lodge and headed towards McCloud falls. We stopped at the vista point right by the exit to the upper falls to get more pics of shasta, since more clouds were around it, MtShastaClouds200703 . We then headed to Upper McCloud Falls, here is one of my pics from there, UpperMcCloudFalls200 . We got in the car and headed down to the middle falls, MiddleMcCloudFalls20 . I took some time to get pics of the moon above us directly while at the middle falls, MoonMiddleMcCloudFal . We got some great sunset pics while getting ready to leave the middle falls, sunsetUpperMcCloudFa. We still had some light so we headed to the lower falls, here Java taught his sister and I how to use some of the settings on our camera's lol. LowerMcCloudFallsatn , that is a pic that I took of the falls when it was getting too dark to see, I used my EV setting on my camera as java showed me and got a pretty good one. Here is a pic of the moon again, from the lower falls, using manual mode, forcing focus and another setting, experimenting with going higher or lower on the numbers, MoonLowerMcCloudFall . Now I know how to get pics of the moon, stars and planets at night lol, and of waterfalls and such at night. We had a great day, got home around 10 pm. I had almost filled up my 2 gb card for the new camera, I downloaded about 815 pics. Have a great night everyone.