How Many Blooms Do You See?

Tonight's photos are of a crape myrtle in one of my flower beds. I guess this one would be considered a crape myrtle bush instead of a tree. It has very long spindly "stems" and at the ends of many of those stems are very pretty blooms...some of them large. But it is not easy to photograph...it sort of gets lost in the background "things." And, I couldn't get all the blooms in the photo...so what you count is not all of them. The close-up shows the size of some of the blooms. I was standing quite a ways away from the bush as I was "playing" with camera settings with the lens I was using, when I took this. It added to the zoom length supposedly without diminishing photo quality. I woke up early and got back to work on stitching the next to the last Christmas ornament. I am coming along with it. I plan to stitch more on it this evening. When I took a break from stitching, I tried to figure out some of the features on my camera. This camera has so many features and I have only touched the surface of what is offered. I still haven't been brave enough to reset it to factory settings. I did take pictures with my phone of all the menu pages of the settings the way I have them currently. I have read some in the camera manuel today and watched some YouTube videos. But a lot of the technology is way above my head! I am satisfied to just get good photos, but I would like to take advantage of some more of what this camera can do. I did figure out how to do one thing today that I hadn't been able to figure out before. Maybe if I just keep reading and watching some more will sink in! I went to Bible study at church tonight. I am home and settling in for the evening and hopefully will get quite a bit farther on the ornament in the next couple of hours. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!