Here's another photo from my recent Florida trip. Several of these flowers were growing in the wilderness down by the lake at my stepmother's house. I didn't know what they were, but my plant-identifier app tells me they're Sagittaria lancifolia, commonly known as Bull-tongue Arrowhead. Which is quite a mouthful.
I have to give you a Florida picture because I haven't been very inspired photographically this week. I've been walking back and forth to work as usual, but not much has jumped out at me as picture-worthy. I think I just need some leisurely time to take a better look around.
Thank goodness it's the weekend, and I have nothing scheduled, so I can finally write a proper blog post rather than dashing something off before leaping into the shower! From your end this will probably seem no better or worse than any other post, but from my end it's much more relaxed.
It will be interesting to see if my blog posts change once I have more time, after mid-April. I keep thinking I should be plumbing the depths a bit more -- talking about thoughts and feelings and issues. Then again, what can I say about issues, other than how horrifying they all are? I'm not sure I have any more light to shed on world events.
I hope to get some more stuff done around the house this weekend, like sprucing up our front garden, which is looking truly abysmal. As I mentioned before, we have a dead bush out there and it needs some other minor weeding and trimming. I also have some plant maintenance to do in the back garden, and I may even mow the lawn. And I still have a stack of New Yorkers to get through! I am deliberately not starting a new book because I want to focus on reading all those. I made a dent in them during my trip to Florida but I'm still months behind!
I've been taking my New Yorkers to work and sharing them with a colleague -- he has the newest issues, which he will give back to me so I can eventually read them. I reminded him yesterday that I'm leaving in a few weeks, though. As I said, "The gravy train stops after April 15!"
When I retired I became less disciplined with blogging. I don't know how when working I managed to fit blogging into my daily life.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the New Yorkers are quite expensive. All I know about them is that the writing is excellent.
Yes, there is little to say about the horror of world events. As a distraction from the Epstein files, it has been perfect.
I don‘t like rushed blogging, which is why some time ago I switched from posting almost daily (or at least several times a week) to my weekly reports, with the occasional extra post and book reviews. While I don‘t think the weekly reports are ideal, at least they allow me to summarise events and post the pictures I take without having to invest time I don‘t feel I have on a typical working day.
ReplyDeleteYou‘ll find your rhythm, no doubt.
I have given up magazines, our Andrew has Private Eye and Byline, so I can always catch up there, though I think the New Statesman is better. I suppose blogging is not just about our daily lives, it is about the current events as well, filtered through the many podcasts on offer. Also some of us (not me) have more fascinating lives than others;)
ReplyDeleteI imagine that your post-retirement blog posts will be just as interesting to us as your current posts. You have a way of perfectly capturing the day-to-day as well as the extraordinary.
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