First shots with a Lensbaby

It's a good season.  I'm thoroughly enjoying homeschool life, as are the kids.  And goodness, I'm learning so much.  (So are they!)  Today we put off our phonics and math lessons for a bit to let Jonathan work on his current project, a book he's titled "The Destruction of Neptune."  :)  And shortly, he was asking about the difference between an Index and a Table of Contents.  As he made out the Table of Contents of his 10 chapter book, spelling PAGE brought a short lesson on long vowels and silent "e."  It turned into an additional handwriting lesson, a discussion of astronomy, a bit of spelling.

Home life has been great, and very consuming.  Getting my camera into my hands in the middle of the day has been just shy of impossible, but I tried a few shots with my new Lensbaby on some recent "field trips" to the Butterfly Center and the Asian Society Center.  It's a difficult lens to learn requiring manual focus and manual manipulation of the limited focal spot, so I'm figuring it'll take a few months to get a good feel for it and get to a place where I can use it artistically.  To most (and especially to Jonathan, who hates blur in photos!), this lens will seem impressively impractical.  But I'm excited about it.  Here's the Lensbaby: