March 8

My wonderful holiday nears its end. I am not really ready to return to my studies, but I suppose I can look forward to the year ending very soon. I did not manage to get everything I wanted to do done during the break. I have done enough to help me get through the next few months though, and I am satisfied with what I did, though I will remain busy. I am still keeping up with my poem/photo a day resolution.

I went for a walk early yesterday morning and beat the rain. I did add some photos to my Picasa site, so if you are interested in checking them out, the link is down at the bottom of the page. We did get some rain yesterday, the stats page at Accuweather claims 1.17 inches in the last 24 hours. The rain began around 8 am yesterday so it should be moderately accurate. The rain feels wonderful after so many dry weeks. Hopefully we will get a lot more rain this month, though that seems doubtful.

Photo Maxed

I am back from the arboretum with a whole lot of photos. I have not yet selected the one I will make my photo of the day, but if you are interested in looking over the whole collection (around 300) just slip over here.

I was going to make some silly comment on how warm it was today (74 right now), how green it is becoming, though the trees are not yet leaved out, and how awesome it is to be surrounded by flowers on the third of March. But I am too kind to do something so cruel to those of you who are living in the white lands.

I hope you look over the photos (though some are rather bad) and enjoy the taste of Raleigh's spring.

Arboretum

I am excited this morning, and you might think that is a weird thing to be at five am. I do have just cause however. First, the forecast high for today is 72! and that is a wonderful thing when one is getting sick of the long dreary winter. Makes me think of the Tom Cochrane song "Beautiful Day" If you are interested in the lyrics, they are posted at this site. Anyway, it is going to be warm, and I too and tired of shades of brown and gray. Which is part of why I am off to the Arboretum today, to see some shades of green, and maybe a few flowers, though those may not be present in a place dedicated to the magnificence of trees. I should have an image of the day up some time this afternoon at the other site. Speaking of daily deeds, I have managed to keep up with my plan so far (poem/photo per day). I know it is only day three, but success is success.

I will let you know how the day went this evening, and post a link to any photos I feel are worth sharing. Due to the massive size of my photo gallery at Picassa, i had to delete some photos yesterday. I am going to try to be a little more discriminating in what I post.

Migration

I have set up another blog for the photos I will be taking this month. I have set up a link on the right hand side but you can get to Yawnycat here as well. One word of caution, as I add images this month to that page, it will become slow loading.

Today is a wonderful day. I woke at my usual time and instead of sitting on my nice soft chair sipping coffee until noon, I put on some shoes and convinced Carol we should go take some photos of the lake in the dark. The photos I took today, and the one up at the new site, were taken between six-thirty and seven-thirty. It was a bit cold this morning, but not horrid.

I ate lunch on the back deck, and I currently have my window open. It is hard to believe it is March 2 already.

I am glad it is Sunday, and to celebrate, I am off to have a nap.

Check out the new blog, k?

Spring Break

Spring break begins today. I am definitely ready for the break from the usual, not that I will be doing anything fun. I am too old for the shenanigans that happen on the beach, and too poor for a mild holiday in the mountains. I will be going over to the arboretum next week. That sounds like the act of a wild an crazy guy. Ok, so maybe not.

I have set myself a wee goal for March. I plan on taking one photo per day and posting it on a blog. The link will be put up later today, once I find a decent place to upload an image a day. I have added one to this page that I took yesterday. I am not sure what it is supposed to be, but it is a stainless steel sculpture I ran across on NCSU's campus yesterday.

I will also be writing a poem a day, though those I will not be posting.

I do have a fair amount of school work to do this week, but there are no nasty interruptions from actually having to go to school.

Because I like to make this page load slowly for those of you who are still on dial up...I will add a low light photo I took of the Bell Tower at state yesterday evening as I was returning from Harris Teeter.

Day after update:
Here is the cake and candles from my birthday. Carol shocked me with this when I came home last night. As you can see, firemen were kept on standby until I had extinguished the flames. Great cake, and a great day.



I walked to school with Carol yesterday and took some photos of spring. Here I am standing below some kind of pretty tree that is full of blossoms. I have no idea what kind of tree it is, but it is gorgeous. I have added a link below to the full set of photos, some of which are blurry, but still accessible.


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It is someones birthday today. Some 44 years ago, on a bitterly cold morning, my world began. Of course, my first memory begins some three years later when I fell into the cellar. Today, however, the weather is quite balmy. The sun shines, the temperature is nearly fifty, and I am getting younger. My plan, from this year forward, is to become a year younger with every birthday. I find it to be a reasonable plan, but it is met with derisive laughter generally. Ahh well, people mocked Edison's electric bulb too.

My plan for today is to work on an essay, attend office hours, go to my workshop, and come home to sleep. I had a good celebratory supper last night, so I have no need to do anything special today. I might take some photos later today if I can find some pretty trees blooming somewhere...