Day 72

March 13, 2021

It's Saturday, how do you tell the difference?

Dad was hanging out at noontime.  I can't find the nest.  I know its nearby.

I took my ride at 5 tonight.  I stayed in the valley and tried to catch some good shadows.  The temperature is dropping again, but it was clear and there was not the heavy wind.  There were ducks on the open waterways, ice is melted and most of the snow is gone.  I hope to spot the wood ducks soon.  

I don't seem to be able to finish a thought all the way through tonight.  I'm thinking about a lot of things, I'm thinking a lot about how much addiction impacts life and the ways in which it has kept my life local.  I don't know if I am sorry about that, except sometimes I think my professional work would have been more expansive if emotionally I had the resilience to take the constant punches.  I didn't though, I was too vulnerable to the roller coaster ride.

I am loving creating my heron show.  It will be called "words from the rookery" and have as part of it a 20 minute slide show of the rookery and a soundtrack of the poems I wrote in the first 6 months.  I can't wait to see it as a whole.  Vanessa and I talked about what's going to happen in the 2 months that the show is hanging.  I'm very excited  I need to create a poster for it.

Sunset was pretty tonight.  I drove around town during it and didn't take a lot of photos, but I enjoyed being out in it.  Tomorrow it will happen at 7 p.m.  Starting tomorrow we will actually have almost 12 hours of light  I am in awe.

Monday is the Ides.  March is a month that feels like it is full of rapid change.  The light makes so much difference in so many subtle ways.  There are little green stubs poking out and the bare trees have buds all over them, and there are birds singing, filling up the air.  Today I saw junco, chickadee, dove, pigeons, red tailed, sparrows  and a couple of vultures, oh yeah and a duck, that I can't identify.  

The Green River Cemetery is beginning to dry up so there are not mud slides to get stuck in.  I went in tonight and felt like I had gone home.  I guess I am a happy camper tonight with a lot on my mind and no complete thoughts.  It's kind of an odd combination.