Today, December 21st is Winter Solstice and is the official start of Winter. It is also the day of the year with the shortest daylight. The picture on the left was taken from our backyard at 7:00 in the morning (left) and 5:00 in the afternoon (right).

It has been a while since I updated my blog. Ten postings ago I was talking about Summer Solstice - I'm so ashamed!

Why the absence? Busy seemed to be an overused word and I will try to avoid that. The thing is, we moved to our new home last September and I started a project in Chicago. I was on a typical consultant routine of flying Monday morning to Chicago and back to Toronto Thursday night, Fridays are normally spent on conference calls and netmeetings. So how about weekends? I have been spending weekends trying to proove to myself I am not worthy to be nominated to be a candidate on Discovery Channels "Canada's Worst Handyman"!

Anyways, just glad to be back!