I'm sitting in the dining room, listening to the birds outside and the music inside. It's rather nice.
The birds outside are the normal morning array. A moment ago, a cardinal alit on the deck railing, close enough so that we could see detail on it. There are a couple of those around here, and we always delight in seeing them. And the music is Autumn Air, by Silver, Wood, & Ivory -- quiet and elegant. We just had breakfast, and in a little bit we're making the weekly run to the store where, among the usual, I'm buying the ingredients to make a mocha torte. Never done that before, so it should be an interesting experience.
I've had a magazine by my place at the table for some time now. It's the April 15 issue of CIO. On the cover is a glum looking man -- as well he should be; he's the lead in an article about a disaster in Maine that cost thirty million dollars, and counting, to resolve. There are so many mistakes and errors in the project, as detailed by the magazine, that after a while it becomes painful to read. It's always fun, in a way, to second-guess, but these folks got smashed, trashed, and whupped up side the head -- and that was in the first month of the go-live for their system. A great deal of their problems came from not understanding what they were trying to do -- not understanding it at a deep conceptual level. The article doesn't say if there were people who blithely assured the governor et al that this was just a bump in the road, just taking on ice, nothing to worry about, but in my experience there are always people like that in any IT project of any size. Even my little project has one.
There, but for the grace of god....
And thats the beginning of our Saturday.
3 comments:
Birds chirping always add such a pleasantness to a morning. It sounds like your day is off to a great start. Enjoy!
Seeing that cardinal was quite a pleasure. Because it's so transient, its difficult to become satiated by it. When I was in Australia, several years ago, I was fascinated by the black swans -- but over a couple of visits to the part, I became blase -- oh, yawn, the swans. Whereas if I saw one right now, I'd stop in traffic to watch. Seeing the cardinal still has that effect.
In our almost 6 acres of woods and grasslands combined we have almost all the birds of the Williamette Valley at our viewing pleasure. Anything from humming birds to black capped chickadees to gold finches (favs)to sunset grossbeaks and stellar jays and a family of crows,tons of starlings, wrens and a sharp shined hawk that lives in our blacksmith shop.
But no cardinals.
I do enjoy the nature that living in a rural area affords you, The gardening season can be a challenge (deer and elk) but if you plant twice as much as you need you'll maybe get what need. It's worth the lure of wild life to a closer view.
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