I am drawn to the outdoors, an influence of my mother.

My job places me in front of a classroom or computer lab many hours a day. Even when not working I often use the computer for enjoyment. It can be hard to even tell whether I am working or playing.

Paradox: As much as I love the computer the longer I am embedded with it the more I feel confined, feel the need for a nature fix. So I flee to the yard, the back yard, that being all the nature I have (my wife seems to think that being a man also tends to limit my nature, hi honey). Sometimes I am pulled in both directions, to the computer(virtual) world and the real world. At such times I may compromise and go yard-wireless or bounce back and forth until I get lost in a chore, in or out.

When I am outdoors I can feel the tension leave my body, I become rejuvenated. I don’t have 10 acres to walk on but I do have a yard. This blog will allow me to revisit my piddlings there at any time and to recall the paths I took as well as the destinations I reached.

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