Springtime in the City

My first blip! Sadly not the best composed or most exciting image, but I do like these trees on Iris Brickfield, the park out the back of my house. I love the feeling that spring has sprung.

And I love being back in Newcastle as well. It's a week today since I moved back, and I've survived the first week in my new job. All going well so far. I'm a little at a loose end for things to do socially at the moment, but hopefully that'll all change once I get back into the swing of things.

I've been away six months. In some ways it feels much longer, but mostly I hardly feel like I was away at all.

Lancaster already feels like a dim and distant memory. It was hardly the best time in my life, but I'm glad to say that I was sad to leave. If I had run away like I was so tempted to do last November/December, I would have felt like I'd let myself down. I'm proud that I stuck it out to a point where I found things to miss about it, and where I did feel sad that I wasn't going to see the place through the summer.

New beginnings and positive feelings. I took this picture while wandering around Heaton this evening. I may not know all that many people here, and it certainly has it's faults, but it feels really comfortable and it's good to be back.