© Benjamin Griffin Burns
How I wish I could find more time to blog! I’ve had some great adventures over the past few weeks, adventures that have taken me from Rhode Island to Massachusetts to California and back home again. I’ve met book-loving science teachers, chatted with science-loving librarians, spent time with writers just starting out, and talked shop with colleagues I admire a great deal. I even had dinner with one of my literary heroes.
(Yes, I managed to control my fan-girl tendencies. Sort of. Mostly.)
I’ve also been working on a book with my kids–not for publication, but for fun. We’ve been organizing years of wildlife images collected on our property, and the result is a pretty amazing record of the creatures that live here with us … all identified and organized by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
(Yep. Geeky. And truly interesting. We’ve seen black bears and hummingbird clearwing moths and a whole lot of critters in between. Right here in our barely-an-acre suburban backyard. And now, if you come over for a visit, we can show them to you.)
And then there is my upcoming book, which is starting to look like an actual book and my goodness I cannot wait to share it with you. And I’m about to begin intensive field research for an even newer project, the subject of which thrills and scares me. And I’ve got this pile of amazing books I’ve read recently and want to sing about on this blog. And … and … and …
Deep. Breath.
I think I’ll start with this: Hello! How’ve you been? Is spring springing where you live? Because the air is warm and the sun is shining here in New England, and I am heading outside with my camera to breathe it all in, and to see if I can find the elusive pileated woodpecker that has been hanging around this winter. How about you? Have you been outside lately? Seen anything wonderful? Do tell.
And check back soon for details on, well, everything else.