Saints be praised! I have been delivered from the lowlands of SC. My project “go-live” date was pushed back to April 2010, so I was going to have a long interval before starting on the next phase. The very day that I completed Phase 1, I contacted a recruiter who just happened to have a possible opportunity in Charlotte. Could I interview the next day? What do you think? Frances and I drove back that night through a raging storm and I had my interview the next day, December 3rd, and started the new job December 10th.
Working long distances from home over the last couple of years has really made me appreciate being back home and having a 20-30 minute drive to work. I'm actually working about 2 blocks from where I first started in Charlotte 11 years ago. There are a few parks and "natural areas" close by, so look forward to some lunch-break botany and birding.
Today is the Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer. Spring is not that far off. The Oconee Bells will be calling in just a couple of months. James and I will be heading once again up the Blue Ridge Escarpment with the same anticipation as twenty years ago, to witness the spring ephemerals as if they had never bloomed before. To watch the "greening of the grade" as though green was a newly invented color. To hear the first Northern Parula as if discovering a new species...
Working long distances from home over the last couple of years has really made me appreciate being back home and having a 20-30 minute drive to work. I'm actually working about 2 blocks from where I first started in Charlotte 11 years ago. There are a few parks and "natural areas" close by, so look forward to some lunch-break botany and birding.
Today is the Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer. Spring is not that far off. The Oconee Bells will be calling in just a couple of months. James and I will be heading once again up the Blue Ridge Escarpment with the same anticipation as twenty years ago, to witness the spring ephemerals as if they had never bloomed before. To watch the "greening of the grade" as though green was a newly invented color. To hear the first Northern Parula as if discovering a new species...
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I can hear the joy in your post Anakeesta! First at getting back to some elevation and being at home. Second at the anticipation of the Blessed Bells, harbingers of Spring!! Am looking forward to that this this year as always. Also loved that added drama of 'driving through the raging storm.' Glad things are working out for you.
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