My wife and I are fortunate to have a large park next to our apartment here in NYC (by large, it is not REALLY large...LOL, just large for NYC). The parkland is the only 'virgin' forest land left in Manhattan, and for brief periods of time, you can approximately see how the island looked 500 years ago. It is magnificent.

Typically I bring my camera when we go hiking into the woods. I often don't really get anything decent as I find it hard to reduce the mish-mosh of trees and vines into something photographable. Still, I normally bring it along just to try. With this tidbit of information in mind, I decided to not take my camera along as it has been raining.

While out in the hills, I came across a bloom of tiger lilies. Beautiful rich oranges, covered in fine droplets of water. We decided to go back home and pick up the camera. By the time we made it to the street level, it was raining quite hard...thereby washing out what I thought was my first real nice photograph in the park!

So, there are really two morals of this story then. The first, of course, is to always bring a camera. The other is that I need a small point and shoot camera...preferably something with relatively decent ISOs at 400 or 800. Any ideas?

James