It is bitter cold here in Western Pennsylvania, with about 5″ of snow on the ground. Finally, a typical winter! Fortunately the snow insulates the plants and the garden should be abundant this coming season.
Pixie and I have spent a few quiet evenings by the fireplace as I considered how I want to proceed on the blog and on all of my social media. Did I want to shut down everything online or commit to writing and creating material more regularly? I explored each option fully, as I was frustrated and frankly, bored, with the status quo. I finally realized that I needed to unhook the direct connection between my life in the garden and my work as a composer – each continues to affect the other but trying to sustain material for two separate threads here and on YouTube has prevented me from doing work I would like to do.
Wild turkey tracks
The good news is that I’m continuing the Composer in the Garden blog with the emphasis on the garden while currently in the process of starting new gardening YouTube and Instagram channels with the same Composer in the Garden name. You may have noticed the new header image and tag line (Gardening in harmony with nature) above, which will carry through everything I do.
While I continue to work on this substantial reimagining of my online sites, please enjoy a video that I made last year that I haven’t posted here, the final episode of my Garden Dreams collaboration.
Working through this process has clarified what I want to do in the garden and on the page while reinvigorating my desire to post frequently and more thoughtfully. I look forward to being more present on the page going forward. Thank you my friends for staying with me all of these years and taking time to read and comment – it means more than you know.
Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us. ~Mimi Novic
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Interesting to read about your thoughts and decisions. I’m on a blogging break right now and hope I can find a better path forward too!
I love seeing your garden, so am glad that you are continuing on, Lynn. Happy dreaming!
There’s value in re-evaluating from time to time. May your new approaches prosper.
Thank you Steve, and Happy New Year to you!
I’m looking forward to your new work! I hope to get a better camera for video so that I can make the garden and cat and nature videos I want. If we fill the world with peace and beauty we help to make a peaceful and beautiful world.
Thank you Bernadette – I completely agree about filling the world with peace and beauty. Good luck on the new camera – are you going to use a phone or something else?
I’d like something I can control more than my phone. I take videos with my Pentax Kx DSLR, but it’s a 2009 model and it’s klunky. I’m first looking into updating it by trading it in for a newer model. I want to be able to play around with the focus and record better sound. And learn more about the software I have on hand. My back yard is nothing like your garden though!