Sunday, January 1, 2012

Welcome 2012

Over here in West Hartford, Vermont—and around Vermont in general—we are very happy to see the tail end of 2011 sneak around the corner and head off into the past.

Not that that extremely difficult year's legacy isn't going to haunt our state for a long time to come.

But somehow, with the ability to display a new calendar now a reality this morning, you can kind of feel the bad taste of Irene fade into the distance.

And hope, that expensive commodity, rises again.

Which is as it should be.

So, resolutions anyone? I realized at some point in early December how much I missed blogging every day. Today, being the first day of the first month and the point at which the last Mercury retrograde is totally over, I decided to get down to daily blogging again.

The plan is to move everything over to a WordPress blog under my own URL in the coming week with an aim to have it all up and ready for viewing by Friday the 13th (oooh, yeah, get that date over with quickly). But in the meantime, I needed somewhere to spill words.

And the morning glory? Well I have a passion for the color blue, and this particular shade is one of my favorites. I've tried to grow this babies for years but every time I put seedlings in the ground, the slugs feast on them until there is nothing.

But this year, a few of my morning glory seedlings went into stealth mode, and in August—voila! Big blue flowers appeared at the top of my trellis. And they bloomed and bloomed and bloomed while Irene poured water on us, while we moved out and moved back in again.

They went to seed which means there will be tons of seedlings all over that area this spring. They'll be back.

And so will we. Not leaving (except when we see really high water because that still freaks me out) but fixing.

A lot to look forward to this year. I'll let you know when the move to WordPress is complete so you can stop by for tea.

Together, we're going to be glorious.

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