Yes, it’s rained a lot around here lately.

UPDATE: Reader Mary Rue emails: “OK! What camera did you use to take that Incredible pix of the Mushroom!!!!!”

Well, it’s not “incredible” — I’m no Rick Lee — but I saw the mushroom when I drove in from dropping my daughter at school, and thought it would make a good picture; I haven’t done enough photoblogging lately. I took it with a Nikon D50 and the 18-70 kit lens that came with my old Nikon D70.

I bought the D50 because the autofocus failed on the D70 (out of warranty, of course) and it would have cost exactly as much to get it repaired as a new D50 body cost. The quality is as good as the D70, and it’s easy to use — my daughter, age 10, took this picture.