Taking flight

Taking flight
Originally uploaded by ChathamGardens

On a cold, rainy day I found myself looking at some recent pictures I took on a day when the sun was shining. Here is one of my favorites.

Spring is on its way.

Its the time of year of the northbound bird migration is beginning and when you see the evidence you can't help but know that Spring is once again going to return.  My first sighting was a group of Bluebirds that were the first to ever visit Chatham Gardens.  They appeared during the snowfall last Friday and then reappeared on Sunday, a bright sunny day, though still very cool.

The migration happens annually and yet it always feels new; its a change of seasons that brings much promise. A promise of new life bursting from the landscape and new life being born in the nests of trees. Seems like a good time start a new project so I decided to join the blogger community.  

My retirement has been wonderful and my transition to having zero commitments and an extremely vague day to day schedule was much easier to achieve then I had anticipated.  After a very satisfying 40 year career in publishing I found that doing little to nothing was very welcome and really easy and actually fun.  I spent the past year enjoying my home, my gardens and the many visitors to my multitude of bird feeders.

I am ready to bring something new to my life and I decided that blogging would be a good way to begin this new transition.  I look at it as a commitment that requires a level of personal discipline that I have been without for the past year.  I will continue to watch the almost daily changes in my gardens. I will still check the bird feeders and surrounding trees for new winged visitors and I will check the almanacs for the times of the sunsets and sunrises.  For all of these events I hope to have my camera at the ready to record what I see and share some of them here on these pages.