Battle of the sexes - or MY NEW LENS!

The leek, one of the most handsome and, to my mind, masculine of vegetables, erupts via a beguilingly twisting stem into this, the most feminine profusion of fertility.

How wonderfully modern of it.

But in other, much more exciting fronts, my new lens arrived all wrapped up in red and white polka dots thanks to Mr C. For those that have any interest in such things, it is, at Trisharooni's recommendation, a Nikon 1.4 50mm lens. Thank you Mr C - such generosity in light of such patient forbearance! (Was that a tautology???) Sigh. . . .

Now it only remains to be seen what I can or can't coax from it.

I well expect to stumble before I walk.