The break has been as overextended as it was unintended.

Life intervenes; the necessary asserts itself over the preferred and chosen. It’s an old story, familiar and not particularly interesting.

It would be easy enough to disregard the time elapsed, but in place of that, I offer a visual retrospective, a sampling of images to represent a few slices of life since last I showed up here.

Bobcat through the kitchen window.

Pasque flowers, May 2023.

Solstice lightning.

Cordilleran Flycatcher nest in the planter between the garage doors.

Swallowtail in the garden.

Harper and Jake.

Lower Manhattan through the Williamsburg Bridge.

Partial annular eclipse, October 2023.

Eclipse through the colander, with leaf cutouts transformed into fish.

“Who you lookin’ at?” Mantises in Cañon City, CO.

Sunset, looking south. January, 2024.

Crocuses in the garden, March 13, 2024.

30 inches of snow in the garden, March 14, 2024.

Indian paintbrush.

Baby rattlesnake.

Bumper cherry crop 2024

Monster Meyer lemon 2024

Jake and Harper

Summer bunny posing

Mid-town Manhattan from Williamsburg

Orb weaver in the hall window

Fat buck