Today is the first official day of my retirement, after a 40-year
career in the airline industry and the last 23 years with my last
employer. I decided to retire and make
my garden my full-time job. Is going
to be strange waking up tomorrow not having to worry about traffic conditions
for my morning commute and checking overnight emails from oversea offices.
I turned 65 this year and it was always my intention to end
my career at this age. I could have continued
working for a few more years, but as long as the finances work, is better to end
our working life while we are young at heart and have enough fuel in the tank for
a second career of leisure.
Retirement for me will be an opportunity for a life, one with
all the time to do all the things I could not do during the responsibility
years. Things like work on my nature photography,
do volunteer work, travel with my wife, learn to play an instrument
and much more. Yesterday I printed my
new business cards the title under my name is “Landscape Artist / Nature
Photography”
This week at the DragonFly Garden
There was a weed growing in the front of the house and when I
tried to pull it out I discovered that it was full of caterpillars. The white
caterpillars are Zebra longwings butterflies and the orange looking ones are Gulf
Frits butterflies. This summer we had more
butterflies in the garden, I had no idea that it had something to do with this
weed. I don’t know what it is and how it
got there, but I want to make sure it becomes a regular in my garden.
The garden is full of yellow buttercup flowers, they grow wild and the bees love them.
The first purple Allamanda flowers of the year
The summer rain is stressing the succulents out.
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