Today is the first day of my vacation, and I woke up early hoping to get a good start on it. Get in some nice photography. Instead, it's raining. And the forecast is the same until at least Wednesday. Either way, I still need to shoot, so I will just have to protect the camera.

This is a bud from a tree growing in front of my house. I don't know what kind of tree just that is will probably be obscuring much of my front porch as soon as it is in full foliage.