Twin Ponds Park

One of our local parks less than an mile from our house is Twin Ponds. We have seen a great blue heron there, many ducks, and just recently, a small family of ducks. Walked by the north side of the park and noticed a mallard in the water, and a female on the short carefully nesting with her young ducklings. We could make out 4 babies under her wings, with their little beeks poking out.
The path around the ponds has an almost ancient feel to it, with lots of roots in the dirt, many trees, and tiny forrest glades among the shore path. Twin Ponds is where Thornton Creek starts, and goes all the way down in to Seattle, to Matthews Beach. What a treasure!

Enjoying the Time

The days have been great having time to take care of things, spend time with mom, garden, clean up. Really looking forward to summer, and spending afternoons at the beach, hiking, taking short road trips with Pat. Went to Richmond beach this weekend; it was glorious! Perfect time of year around here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

"Do your work, then step back."

Evening

I am finding the past days very enjoyable. The weather is warming up, the garden is planted, and work is becoming a better routine. A routine, yes...but not all bad. That word, routine, has such negative connotations. Sometimes routines are good, and tolerable...even preferable. The work I do is mostly satisfying, sometimes enjoyable, and usually not boring. There is a lot to be thankful for in that.

The sun is going down and a cool breeze is coming in through the window. Lots of bird song out there now. I love it. I was just hearing how scientists have studied bird song and that the birds learn specific bird songs. But they have to learn it to communicate, just like we humans learn language to communicate.

The birds are singing as the light fades. It is quiet and calm. Thinking of getting to bed early tonight.

Back to Blogging

Back to blog I go. I still love this blog, and going back over the months and years I find a comfort in it. It is Saturday morning and I am having coffee, and getting ready to do some yoga. My back is more fragile than ever now, but I have learned some new poses that should help to make it stronger. I promise to be better about doing my yoga and my blogging each day.

The sunny day is out there, waiting. I'll be out there soon. Can't wait! The garden is half-way planted. Still need winter squash, zuccini, carrots, green beans. It's a lovely spring!

Who Dares to go Outside?

It's a very rainy day and windy and miserable. If I go out at all it will be to retrieve things from my car, shop, or put out the garbage.

Just worked out and I feel good. Now if I can work harder on losing the pounds, I will be really happy.

Feeling a bit more ready for Christmas. Came home yesterday and Sarah was getting all the decorations out and I just wasn't ready for it! Let her keep up the lights, but the other stuff had to go downstairs until next weekend. Next weekend we'll be getting the tree and doing the whole decoration thing.

It will be so nice to have a vacation, but it is not coming any time soon. The week Pat and I plan to take off next year will be unpaid. Oh, but it will be so worth it!

Emergent Culture

From emergent-culture.com:

ENTER THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
The Occupy Movement has coalesced into a vigorous and promising widespread social movement that seems to be gathering more support every day and that is very heartening indeed.
However, we need more than a movement of protestors and both labels must evolve into something permanent and respectable. I have argued the case for the creation of a People’s Congress that operates outside the current political system.
The current political system is far too entrenched in its rotten ways to think that we can simply vote better politicians into office. My complete case for the creation of a Peoples Congress as the only way out our collective nightmare is presented in A Movement to Unite All Good Will Movements: The Occupy Movement Anticipated. Our collective problems can only be addressed collectively.