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My seasonal next-door neighbors are back
March 21, 2010 * * * * * Posted by: Petra 
For the fifth year in a row our seasonal neighbors are back. No eggs spotted yet, but they are definitely preparing their nest and resting next to the kitchen window. This picture was taken last year. It is very hard to see which one is the female and which one is the male. They sit on the nest in turns. I heard the male has a bigger knob on the beak, but I still can’t see it. I thought of spilling some paint on one of them, just so I could tell them apart, but I would never do that. I read that if you see them swimming with their babies, mom is always in front and dad is in the back. Anyway, seeing all the birds in couples can only mean one thing:
SPRING!!!
Actually I don’t need the birds to tell me that it is spring, because I feel it in my head. I am good-humored, full of energy and full of new creative ideas. So many, the adrenaline is flowing through my veins and I want, but I can’t, do them all at once and that is driving me crazy. Where to start? I have to write them down and save them for later, but at the moment it is hard to sit down and think, I am to wound-up. I think I have gone spring-manic. I am running around, my head is spinning, I want to do it all, and my mind is going in all directions. My friends are getting tired of me, because I want to share all these thoughts, and I am loud and enervating. And I am thinking: sit down, write it down, try to concentrate on just one thing for an hour and I try but it is very hard. Don’t misunderstand me, I love this time of year and I love this feeling, I am so full of energy and ideas, but it is also very tiring. I have to find a way to canalize my thoughts, put them in order, decide what to do first, make sure not to forget valuable ideas for later.
My mind is rattling: start painting, I know I do well in this state of mind; make some designs for t-shirts and try to sell them. I did that , take a look, and now I want to make some more; work on the Photoshop-collage I promised to make; sit down and read, I bought a very interesting book (that doesn’t work at all!); I need to learn more about facebook, how does this fan-page-thing work; I made some new paintings, so now I need to take pictures and update my website; I want to help my friend to update her blog; Vision & Verb: what to write?
I must admit my head is only filled with fun-things to do. Lucky for me (although all the other things still have to be done), at least I am not like my friend, she’s got cleaning-fever at the moment and is moving every object in house to clean underneath and behind.
As I am writing this I am finally settling down, relaxing for a minute. Now first things first: this is it for Vision & Verb. Maybe next time I can come up with something less chaotic.
Job done, have to move on now, I'm sort of in a hurry, bye
Reader Comments (16)
OMG, Petra, you've captured my state of mind [and functionality] exactly. Exactly. BTW, It's 3AM and I cannot sleep.
This image really made me sigh.
I just noticed the swans have returned to 'our' little pond to begin again their nesting. What a gorgeous image!!! And - I know exactly what you're feeling about 'spring'. It's wanting to do it all..and do it all right now...and not wanting to sleep. Isn't that why they call it spring 'fever'???
Lovely post!!!
OMG, Petra. Are you a Gemini by any chance??? :D It IS, as Marcie says, Spring Fever. You fit it to a "T." And speaking of T, those t-shirt designs are incredible, as is the above image. That little cygnet cuddled under the feathers is priceless.
List making is a good thing, I think. Since our recent move, we have a long list of new (to us anyway) places we want to visit. Like you, we're having trouble deciding where to start with the exploration!
Love the photo of your little visitors. It must be so exciting to have them to watch (and photograph) so close by.
First of all, what a gorgeous image! So sweet! Secondly: You just described how I'm feeling these days! :) LOTS of projects in my head but I'm so restless I seem not to able to relax and think of one thing at a time! Yes! I love Spring! (After all I was born in April...) :)
beautiful photo. everyone is feeling the same way these days, spring is in the air!! hard not to feel alive when everything else is coming alive.
LOL! It's spring fever! The best way to be "sick."
You sound exactly as I'm feeling right now!! Spring fever has hit hard this year. I absolutely adore that image, Petra! The little one with his head peaking out from under him momma's wing is just precious.
oh my gosh, what an exquisite photo!! Utterly amazing. Wow.
Beautiful image! And I relate so much to your post. Inspiration overload...It makes it hard to focus. Happy Spring!
It's definitely spring here in the UK, and today I even saw a butterfly! I love that photo! xx
In Niagara I can feel spring rumbling under my feet when I stand outside. The ground holds a hum of promise. It makes me so thankful to be here.
The photo is absolutely stunning, thank you so much for sharing it!
This is so funny! My mind has a tendency to flip from one thing to the next exactly like you wrote! LOL So funny!
I LOVE the picture with the baby poking out of the back feathers. Soooo cute!
Great but dangerous shot! So lets enjoy Spring girls! Because in a split second its winter again and little tiny swans become dangerous monsters! ;-)
Aw what a picture, I just love the little one who has his head up trough mothers back feathers. Spring isn't really here yet but there are some signs of its arrival :-)
hi petra, love this - comparing it to where we are here, going into our autumn/winter; although we don't have the same seasons really - we're about to go into the long rains and up on the mountain i probably won't see the sun for a month or so!!