~ Tonight I'll fly to Doha, Qatar then on to Nairobi, Kenya for the 4th visit in 2014…working early in preparation for teaching the Peking University life sciences class later this morning, I glanced out the kitchen window…the array of clouds in the eastern horizon reflected dawn colors in a painterly fashion…one of the joys of early morning is th opportunity to observe sky coloration which is rarely present during daytime…the Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 100mm f/2 ZE manual focus lens received the image with admirable clarity