Is the blog back? Well, not really. I am back home from the hospital and working my way up to things like walking and sleeping through the night and trying to be be drug free after hip replacement surgery last week. Baby steps. But I  am walking and climbing stairs with crutches and was on them the day after surgery.

One's world shrinks very fast when body parts are replaced with titanium and polyethylene but I thought I'd share this:

which is the view out my window that sits right in front of my desk where my computer is and where I've written most of the posts over the past three years or so.

Nature's display in Cambridge, MA, where I live, is completely glorious in early November. I am a beneficiary and so pleased to be here to appreciate it.