I turned on the radio today and hear reports of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, terrorist attacks, angry and opportunistic politicians clawing one another, economic stresses, unemployment and storms and tornadoes. I decided to absorb that news, but I will not be defined by it, or see the world in that way. So I came home and got my camera and went out with Lenore to make some news of my own. I found it in the farm garden, and in this flower in the late afternoon. Lenore, good girl that she is, lay down next to me and we just waited for the sun to do its work, and it did.