Finding—

Have you ever noticed that when you’re looking for a particular piece to a jigsaw puzzle, you can’t see it anywhere? So you start looking for something else, and that first piece jumps up and says, “Here I am!”

Why is that?

Crows—

The crows appeared on the morning of Halloween, as I was walking Sophie. They were coming and going and chatting amongst themselves at the top of a cottonwood tree. Glad to have them back!

The next morning, no crows. The morning after, back again.

The Pecan Question—

A couple weeks ago, before the crows returned, I blogged about how in the fall, crows bring pecans to a nearby light pole and drop them onto the pavement. I wondered where the pecans came from, and how far the crows flew before consuming them.

On time-change Sunday I took a late walk. It was a duty walk—I didn’t want to go—but pushed myself out the door. After dropping off a couple items at the park’s library box, I searched for the sunniest streets to walk down.

Just two blocks away, but a street I usually pass by, I came across pecans on the sidewalk in front of a house. There was the tree right in the front yard, only two blocks from the light pole (one block as a crow flies).

I picked up four pecans from sidewalk and street, and had eaten two by the time I got home.

An aside—

Speaking of the time change, I notice many states are considering a move to continual Daylight Savings Time. Please, please, please, Legislators, reconsider.  Yes, return us to one continual time, but make it Standard Time, not DST.

There’s a reason it is called Standard Time. Look to the health benefits, not the urgings of businesses, when making this decision!

Seeking—

With this latest time change, my thoughts have been scattered. I wrote nothing over the weekend.

This week, I plan to get back to writing. I have a particular plotting quandary that has proved impossible to resolve by direct approach. 

Here’s hoping if I attend to the details of my characters’ lives, and wander down a sunny street or two, maybe the answer will pop up and say, “Here I am!”