Hello!  If anyone has been watching out there, I am sorry for the long absence.  But, there is a good reason for it:  I have been feverishly working to launch a new division to my company, Backroads Bluebird Boxes.  Please check out the new website Boxes4Bluebirds.com ! Of course, we still have TopGlobes.com where we continue to add some great new maps and globes.

Why bluebird nest boxes? Well, my mom has been a bluebird nest box monitor for almost ten years now, and after asking her some questions, I realized what a good online retail product that is. There are about 100,000 of these nest boxes purchased each year and growing. Since she already had a good design I decided we could create a production method and a website in fairly short order. So, here we are! The website is up and running, we have bluebird nest boxes in stock and we are ready to go.

As we get closer to Spring, and then Summer, as the weather begins to warm, and as the days get longer, we start to look forward to those nostalgic sights, sounds and smells that remind us of our free-swinging childhoods. The crickets chirping at night. The sound of sprinklers in the evening and lawn mowers in the morning. The smell of fresh cut grass. A dip in a lake or stream. A walk at night in our sandals. I could go on and on. Oh, I almost forgot about the arrival of the Spring bluebird!

We are already seeing Mountain Bluebirds near our production shop in the mountains, yet still there is a thick blanket of snow on the ground and more on the way. The seasons blend and overtake each other in this way. First a balmy February day almost warm enough for shorts. Then a bluebird! Then some buds on a tree…. Then, a crisp bite to the early fall air. Leaves turning. A few early snowflakes.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a tropical climate. A place with white beaches, blue waters, and palm trees where the sun’s rays and the water’s waves are always warm. But, there is something rejuvinating and renewing about the changing of the seasons that we enjoy. I think I’ll stay here and enjoy it with arrival of our bluebirds in the Spring and the first snowfalls of Fall.