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I took another crack at converting the RAW file shot from yesterday to see if I can get it closer to real life. I first tried Auto white balance and it washed out all the color. I then played with the temprature and this was what my eye saw in real life. I leave it up to you to decide which one you prefer. Feel free to leave a comment below and let me know which one you prefer.

Here was the best shot of the group I took from the other night. I also wanted to point out that there was no Photoshop magic to this shot. I used my Canon 300D with the Sigma 105mm lens shooting in RAW format. The color temperature on this shot was set to "As Shot" with no white balance adjustments. I liked the way it looked so I left it as is. In real life the sky was as not as yellow orange, it still had a touch of blue.

Last night the family went for a walk. I took the opportunity to bring my camera to try and get some sunset shots.

All of the cherry trees are now in full bloom. I guess its time to move onto another subject :-)

Our Yoshino cherry tree is just now starting to blossom.

Here is a closeup of the Okame blossom. I like the way this one came out with the green grass as a background.

The Okame cherry tree is now in full bloom.

The cherry trees made the bees very happy last weekend.

Hopefully this is the last of the soaker hose series for a while :-) As I said earlier, I had lots of time in between hose moves. So I took a lot of pictures this weekend.

Even the weeds got a little water last weekend. This is one of those stubborn wild onions. They seem to grow everywhere around here.

I spent the entire weekend watering and fertilizing all the new plants and the trees we planted last Fall. I ended up buying some soaker hoses since all the "plant guys" say that's the best way to water trees and shrubs.

It actually made the job fairly easy. You set up the hose around the tree and come back in 1-2 hours later to move it to another tree. The key is to have lots of hoses and a faucet setup with a multi-tap.

As you drive up to our house the first thing you will now see is a very large river birch tree at the corner of our lot. Right now I feel that this is the highlight our new landscaping. This will probably change over time as all the plants grow.

Last Fall we had trees planted in the back of the house. This Spring we are having the front of the house landscaped. Here is a selection of our new plantings.

Our first cherry tree finally sprouted new flowers today. I can now officially say it is Spring.

I thought about doing sometype of April Fools joke for about half a minute, then I decided against it. There will be plenty of other April Foolish behavoiur on the net. So here are some pictures of tree bark.