Creation

Welcome. I begin again. A new year, a new blog.

Unlike my brother, I find New Year's to be one of my favorite holidays. A fresh start, a new beginning. The insincereity of Christmas behind and spring just ahead. A rebirth and the prospect of new opportunities. I find it totally refreshing and eagerly anticipate what the universe has in store for me.

Even the blizzard that just passed through brings the promise of rebirth. With so much water for spring growth I imagine the weeds will flourish. Weeds not at all native to the area. Ah, the law of unintentional circumstance.

I have two small birds that like to perch on the thermometer outside my front door. It started with one. At night I would find her? him? all ruffled up with his nose tucked under a wing. After several weeks, another bird of the same feather joined. They now perch together. One on the round thermometer itself, and the other on the bracket which attaches it to the eave of the roof. I can go in and out of the door and they do not feel threatened enough to take flight. If the screen door is opened all the way, the upper corner of the door comes within inches of the thermometer and sometimes still they do not fly away.

If the cat has noticed them there, he does not let on.