I’m back at work this week after almost 3 weeks off during the holidays, and the 50+ minute commute has held some amazing sights.

Looking at and listening to birds makes me feel calm and content, as though I’m on the front row observing a fluttering and dynamic ecosystem in fluid motion.

Chipmunks posing in Park County, CO make for peaceful pictures.

I got a new camera for Christmas, the first one ever that has interchangeable lenses that detach and rates a case instead of rambling about in the bottom of my purse like my previous little point-n-shoot models. A respectable camera. A DSLR.  I’m the family…