The last day of January and to all of you have faithfully kept checking the site - a bit of an explanation.  Not only had my computer crashed but it seems so did I.  It is amazing that one can go from feeling fine to being on death's door step in a blink of an eye, but that is what happened.  After over a week in the hospital I'm back home but the prognosis for recovery is that it is going to take a long time.  Hopefully things will be looking up soon and I'll actually have the energy to go for a walk again one of these days - after all in another few weeks the robins should be returning....