Keep It Simple

I don't do New Year's resolutions.  I used to make goals for myself, but I always made them pretty easy, and typically they were things I would do anyway without writing them down and posting them on the wall.  So then I came up with "theme" years -- "The Year of Birding", "The Year of Reading", "The Year of Art."  I've run out of themes, though, so you know what?  I think I'll just dispense with all that New Year's nonsense once and for all.

Instead, I'll just keep doing what I've been doing, which has been pretty darn good, all in all.  For example, I'll keep on watching those birds:

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

And I'll keep going out to sketch things:

Lately, I've been practicing drawing trees

Come Spring, I'll get back to my garden, and at times I'll do volunteer work for the Seattle Audubon publications committee, and I'll keep hanging out with my friends, and of course, most important of all, I'll keep hanging with my buddy Truman.

A recent outing to the Montlake Fill

So I have no resolutions, no goals, and no theme for 2017.  Because in my world, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!