The top photo is of a sign chalked up outside a yupster boutique on Franklin Street earlier this week; I love it because that’s exactly how I feel. Usually spring seems to come fast and early in North Carolina, like one day in late February the Powers That Be get up, say it’s time for spring, and turn the colors and saturation and heat up to 100% all at once, but this year it’s been a slow sweet slide down into full-blown spring in the NC. My month-long project for April — the color green — has been so much more rewarding that February’s and March’s, if only for the slowly rising color and the slowly deepening blue in the sky. A single color can be really powerful, sometimes.

I had a terrible time trying to capture the amazing quality of light yesterday, walking around on my lunch break, but the process was fun; set the camera to P, threw the kit lens on autofocus, and shot everything from the hip. Nothing tremendous but certainly a few things that almost, almost capture how amazing April can be down here.