Those things sure are pretty but they are also noisy and aggressive.

(You are getting some great shots with your Nikon 1. Still liking it?)

I love it now that I've finally broken down and read the instructions. I'm not too crazy about the factory set point and shoot mode but, once I found Program, Shutter, and Aperture priority modes, I decided I had a keeper. It'll be even better when I can add the 30 - 110 mm lens to my kit.

Beautiful!

A friend asked me about eating pea foul and I thought about all those that wandered about the plantation houses of the old South. You know they didn't last through the wawah. I read a diary of a lady who lived in New Orleans at the beginning of it and moved to Vicksburg just in time for the siege. She wrote of a time when there was nothing to eat in the stores but mule meat and 'dressed rats'.

My friend Steve and I were back to the Museum of Appalachia yesterday. He surprised me with this capture of a wrinkled old man with a Nikon 1.