I took my new toy -- a 60 mm micro lens -- out for a spin today. Here's what I came up with:

Update: My sister calls and wants to know, "What's with the ring on the flower? Why isn't it on your hand?" Let me tell you, fingers up close are ugly monsters. Hairs, wrinkles, pores, the whole hideous bit. And I'm no hand model, so I crouched in my neighbors' yards and used their pretty flowers as a placeholder.

  See? Pretty ring (thanks, honey!), pretty flower... pretty picture.