Finding my way back

I've feel like I've been out of the blogging loop lately. Which is not altogether a bad thing, and it may not be apparent since I've still been posting up here on the blog. But I've been absent. Finding space in my days to think about blog posts, or check in on my blog or read a few other blogs, well it just kind of disappeared. And because it stopped happening, I stopped thinking about it, and it somehow feels hard to even get myself back into a blogging headspace.

I think part of it is feeling like whatever I do have time to do, it won't be good enough. I have minimal time with the camera, and as much as I would love to spend that extra bit of time to work on images, it isn't there right now. And I've been so completely absorbed in daily life, and that the things I'd love to get a photo of, I haven't, because sometimes you just have to live it, rather than photograph it. Sometimes I do feel that in reaching for my camera to capture this moment or that, by the time I'm ready to click the button, the moment is gone, and I've missed it. 

So we have baby chickens, five of them, and I don't have an image of them yet [well ok I do, but they're all blurry, chickens are such a tricky subject to photograph as they just don't stand still!]. But I haven't done my little baby chicken blog post since I don't have an image. And they're over two weeks old now, getting bigger and getting their chicken feathers and losing their baby fluffiness. They are cheeky and sweet and I've no idea how Frankie chicken is coping with five babies. I have a hard enough time with one.

I've been making lots of yummy dessert-type of treats lately. Experimenting with pastry and summer fruits, making galettes, and tarts, and turnovers and little pies. But because I'm putting them together on the fly around dinner time, I'm already under pressure to just make it happen [a 10 month old can leave you feeling totally under duress when they want something, and I'm sure it only gets harder once they can actually speak], and the lighting isn't so good at that time of day, so again no images. But I'm loving experimenting with these new treats.

And so on it goes. The blogging loop just hasn't been happening for me the last month or so. I guess a new balance is needed, and I'm working on finding it. And in the mean time, life is ticking along very nicely, the garden is growing and surviving the heat [thriving in fact], and we're enjoying our summer. I pulled up all my lettuces this week, they had gone to flower and I left them to it for a while. These were the last leaves I harvested from this lot. I wish I already had more in the ground, something I've yet to master is succession planting. But one thing at a time. 

Do you blog? Ever find yourself getting into a cycle of 'not blogging'?