Finding small pockets of time to enjoy photography is becoming a specialty! In this second post about "mini-vacations", I take another look at packing in a ton of opportunity into a seemingly impossible short period of time.

I am fortunate to work a block and a half from one of North America's premiere Japanese gardens - the Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois. A quick after-work 90 minute trip with a colleague became another outing that a great deal can be found near where we live or in this case, work.

It's amazing what 90 minutes of Zen does for one's outlook...