April’s just around the corner, but that water is frigid. Spring is taking its time.

I believe I shot this back in September, before Winter descended and killed everything in sight. At the time, I deemed this shot the best of the set. Both offer a different perspective of the same scene, I suppose - and I don’t mean that in the literal sense.

We’ve had some warm days as of late, so I’m yearning for Spring. It’s been ages since it last snowed (although, coincidentally, we could see a dusting tonight), and some sort of green fuzz has appeared in a dormant field down the street, so I reckon the change of seasons is fast approaching. Being new to the cornbelt, I’m clueless when it comes to planting seasons, growing seasons, and so on. Regardless, I’m looking forward to watching the color of the landscape change as the days grow longer.

And I’m definitely looking forward to that first good crack of thunder…

I suspect I may have broken myself from the routine of blogging. While I often find myself wanting to write, I no longer feel obligated to do so. When I launched Betsu ni, I did so with the intention of taking blogging “more seriously” than I have in the past. Unfortunately, in an effort to be “serious”, I think I’ve castrated myself. The sort of topics that make a “serious” blog aren’t the sort of topics I care to write about.

I should just relax and write.