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[calissa]

Spring is in full swing. The fruit trees everywhere are in flower and I've managed more than a few photos of bee butts. The peregrines are back nesting on the window ledges of Melbourne skyscrapers. The days have been warming up and I was able to go out for a walk in a t-shirt yesterday (carefully avoiding the routes guarded by nesting magpies). The weather is shifting, though, and we should get some rain tonight.

I've not really done any writing for a long time (perhaps a year or two now?), but I have felt some occasional stirs of creativity. Kathleen Jennings' posts on her observation journal have been a source of great delight. The current state of my health prevents me from keeping one by hand, so I have been experimenting with an electronic version. It's not nearly as satisfying, but it has produced some lovely turns of phrase.

There were no observations today, however. This morning I managed to step on my glasses. No lasting damage, thankfully, just popped out one of the lenses and needed to take them in to the shop. By the time I arranged for transport and had run the errand, most of the day had disappeared. I'm so very glad it was an easy fix. I fished out my old pair, but the prescription is a little different and even wearing them for just a few hours had me feeling the strain.