There’s a new feature here at the blog: a bar on the right side that shows the latest images I’ve uploaded to my Flickr account.

I got a DSLR camera a few weeks ago and turned to Flickr as a place to share the pictures I’m taking.  It’s been fun already going on a few excursions as I learn the ins and outs of the camera.  Today I figured out the self-timer feature by having the camera take its own selfie.  Fortunately for the anti-selfie crowd, the photo only showed how much I need to clean that mirror, so I’m not posting it.

On Friday, I went into DC on my day off to snap some higher quality shots of what those who follow me on any social media have seen from my frequent post-work walks.  I ended up with some cool ones, including involving this duck, who I followed along the Tidal Basin trying to get different monuments in the background:

Even though I’ve been to the Tidal Basin a million times, I stumbled up on this angle I hadn’t notice before with the Capitol, and the statue inside the Jefferson Memorial:

Check out the rest of the DC collection here.

The day before, I walked around Frying Pan Park, a 1920s-1950s era farm near my parents’ house.  As soon as I got there they were letting out some baby sheep, who almost ran me over, but provided endless entertainment as they raced each other around their pen:

One of the older sheep, in a different pen, had a different idea about how to spend his morning:

This park is actually one of my favorite places to run.  Besides the animals, it has a lot of peaceful scenery that is a nice refuge from the hustle and bustle going on just outside the gates:

The rest of this photo set is here.  There will definitely be many more to come.