Leaving the Nest

 

It has been a long, cold winter here in the

American Midwest.  I have been cocooned

in my studio, hibernating from the blahs of

winter...  In two months from today we will be

 hiking up to castles along the Rhine, walking

 through the tulip fields in the Netherlands

and strolling along the cobblestones in Paris.

 

And I need to get ready.

I set today as the day I would start my training

for our European journey, I thought, it will be

March, certainly the weather will have improved.

Haha.

I was wrong, it was grey and cold and snowing.

 

Not a great day to leave the warm nest of my

home and venture out to the woods.

But I did it anyway and feel better for doing so.

 

At least, I am fairly certain that by the time I

leave for my European adventure it will be

Spring ~ and it can't come a moment too soon

as far as I am concerned.