Boadicea in Bellingham?

This was my favorite photo from today's St. Patrick's Day parade. The lovely lady in green is the instructor of Cynthia's Silver Sneakers class at the Y -- she was in C's Friday blip, wearing a different outfit.

I decided to use my "big" Panasonic camera today because of its longer zoom lens. I'd only used it once in the last few months when I blipped the first hummingbird of the year, and had forgotten how to use it. It didn't seem to be focusing very well, but I'd just got a new contact lens for my right eye -- the one I had cataract surgery on -- and thought perhaps I hadn't adjusted to it yet.

When I got home, I realized that the camera had been set to manual focus. This was one of the few usable photos. Luckily, I'd also shot some with the little Olympus XZ-1.

Lesson learned.