I will be shot at high noon

I've taken a few days off from taxes, but I will resume this evening ... hopefully. I've never been as far behind on our taxes as I am this year. I still have a few more people to bring their stuff by, but like me, they won't file until the last minute. I applied for a mega-buck loan through a Chinese bank but was turned down. Serves me right for not shopping more at Wal-Mart.
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Saturday is supposed to be a decent day for shooting, but the Lady Vols play Baylor in early afternoon and I don't want to miss the game. The Tennessee women beat Baylor pretty easily in the first game of the season, but the Bears are much improved since then. Maybe I can get out later in the day for some photo attempts. Much of the stuff I like to shoot isn't quite ready for me as yet. Birds are not yet plentiful in several species, wildflowers are nowhere near peak, and deciduous trees are still mostly barren of leaves.
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My old squirrel friend Little One must have died; he had been eating peanuts from my fingers since just after his mother put him out into the world on his own. He was very old as squirrels go, and had become stiff and crippled from what I feel was arthritis. He was no longer swift enough to avoid the neighborhood cats and he hasn't been seen for a couple of weeks. Just another on a long list of good friends I have lost over the years. Cat owners whom allow their pets to run loose are not on my Christmas card list!
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After spending just a little bit of time on Megashot then going to Flickr, it is almost blinding. The white glare at the latter site is very annoying when trying to view photos. Yahoo needs to make Flickr more appealing instead of just sticking money in their pockets. Megashot is growing by a few members each day, and those new ones are telling more of their friends about the advantages of displaying photos there. I'm not spending a lot of time at either site, but Megashot is becoming much more photographically appealing. Flickr is still the place to be if you crave the social aspects, but Megashot will be a pretty good place for personal interactions, too. I cannot see myself purchasing another Flickr Pro account next year, but I will probably continue to post photos just to keep contact with some people I care about on the site until they move to Megashot. Let me put it this way; Flickr is fun because of the social interactions whereas Megashot is fun without them; it will be unbelievable when more people join and begin using it the same way they do Flickr.
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My Pentax will be two years old in a couple of weeks and their new K7 model is mighty appealing. The worst problem I can find with Pentax is they are not up to par with other camera brands when it comes to making good photos at high iso ranges; both Nikon and Canon kill Pentax in that department. The K7 is much improved with its cutting edge sensor, but it still has a ways to go. Another thing that bothers me is that Pentax is now owned by Hoya and I have no idea what their plans are for camera innovation. Hoya makes some great glass filters, but bringing the Pentax brand into the same everyday conversations that Canon and Nikon enjoy is a daunting task. We who use Pentax know our cameras are superior in most ways, but Nikon, Canon, and Sony spend the big advertising bucks.
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Sorry to be so boring lately, but there is just not a lot going on that I want to talk about. Mark again has me stirred up a bit about the Republicans; I hope they have a Tea Party around here for me to attend. That will be something to write about; if they allow me to have pencil and paper in my cell.
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Have a super shot day!
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