Day 154

April 6, 2020

Somedays, regardless of the perfect weather, I can’t seem to get myself to leave home. I push myself to run a few times a week but there are days were I just can’t even think about putting on clothes and facing the world. Or what’s left of it. I found an article in Rolling Stone about how this feeling is pervasive among the population these days. We are mourning the loss of our old life and fear what the new version will be once we are able to get back out there. The fact that going to the grocery store is, for all intents and purposes, a life and death situation is an incredible amount of stress to put on something we’ve been doing all our lives. Coming to terms with these ideas has helped a bit and I am hoping I can start to manage the rollercoaster of emotions a bit better.

In the meantime, here is a photo of one of the many visitors we get to our courtyard. I am standing at my front door (as far as I got today) and she is across the yard. I used the 300mm zoom lens pushed all the way and leaned against my doorway for stability. I didn’t have time to get the tripod, but my camera is always at the ready near the front door. Quick lens change and here we are. Took about seven shots before she flew off.