October 9, 2026

How many different kinds of birds can you identify in this picture.  Rookery was beautiful today.

It was a good day for taking photographs.  I think we have one more of these special Fall days before the rain arrives.  I haven't taken a lot of photos this week, but I sure have taken in and appreciated the weather.  It's been lovely.

The final migrations have started.  We still have 2 heron in the canal.  I didn't see the adolescent one I captured the other day, but two large adults were out.   

I have to figure out a new routine.  I need to come home after the Y.  I need to focus in the early afternoon and take my nap later.  I'm not getting enough time to do have tos before my brain melts down.

After my nap I have energy to go take photos and write, but it's too late to get most errands done, so I should come home and accomplish some business.  Take a nap and go be an artist.  Alright, next week I will try and plan that.  I'm adding a half hour onto my Y time, too.  I think I'm healing.  I feel more upbeat about it all, too.  

Ate some dinner with Edite tonight.  Always a good thing. I really do need to have a writing group again.  We talked about the need to support each other's writing and art in more routine ways.  I think we all need to be doing that.  It's like a practicing spiritual life, a sustained art life with community support.  

My trips to the rookery  have gotten fewer and fewer and I am meditating less and claiming silent time less.  It's time to  build those important ingredients back into the daily life.