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To: zeta1961 who wrote (72)	5/29/2007 4:28:42 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 379

Pesticides seem a good guess. It is interesting, we seem to have plenty of honey bees...and some big bumble bees around here--I think partly it is that there is such a great diversity of flowering plants in the suburban North Seattle area--as in any suburb. And I'd like to think that most folks do not spray pesticides--and that may be more true in Seattle than a lot of places. Maybe. I myself have an organic weed lawn--which is mostly grass. The organic thing is mostly because I have never seemed to need pesticides to keep things healthy. Fungicides for the roses yes, but not pesticides. Except for some slug bait, but that I think is not so bad. Anyway, I am tempted to let the lawn grow out now--bloom (lots of clover) and then it naturally go dormant over the summer. It always goes dormant due to lack of rain, and this spring has been rather dry. Thank goodness the puget sound convergence zone has twice set up over my town! Anyway, it always seems a shame to mow the clover before it has a chance to bloom. Camera settings... Well, yes. I don't know why I thought I could get away with 1/500th, and it may even be that with the long lens I thought I needed 1/1000th. An experiment. That is the beautiful thing about digital cameras, snap away.