Spring Renewal Begins With Liquid Sunshine and Baltimore Robins!

Spring Renewal Begins With Liquid Sunshine and Baltimore Robins!

I read about New Ideas for your life and business to create a sense of SPRING RENEWAL ...a contest put together by the founders of two great groups... Anna Banana and Sally Cheeseman. This is a nice challenge and I can do it with photos from my front yard. Just a week ago there was only one lonely flower to be found.

                              

Yesterday, there were lots of these tiny yellow flowers. Not only lots of little yellow flowers but lots of red breasted robins.  I quickly started clicking away. One, Two, Three...there were robins all over and I just kept trying to catch a good shot. William Johnson, I need some lessons.  For a point and shoot camera, guess they are pretty OK... but nothing like William's. Maybe my Spring Renewal will be to find out what camera he uses and ask for some pointers.  

    

  

I would have missed all these pictures if I had waited just one more day.... Why?...because  today it is all 

Liquid Sunshine 

in the Baltimore area..so much so..some of the roads are closed due to flooding. If there is no liquid sunshine tomorrow, I will take more photos..not wanting to miss anything and hopefully have more Spring photos to share. 

Spring is the time to revive ourselves and our business. How many different ways can we look at this spring season? How many fresh new ideas can we take from this sense of renewal?

The Sun, Spring in Baltimore, and Connections

This morning on the front page of the Baltimore Sun there was the headline, "Spring in Baltimore" along with a most gorgeous photo of early pink buds framing the Pagoda in Patterson Park. It was such an outstanding photo, I just had to look at the photographer's credit line, and sure enough, it was my friend Jed Kirschbaum. We first met when the Sun did an article on my ceramic art many, many years ago. Jed came to my studio that day, and I still have his artistic photos hanging in my office.

Our paths crossed again very early in my career with O'Conor, Piper and Flynn at the first annual Regional Realtor Convention and Exposition at the Timonium Fairgrounds where 1,500 agents attended the seminars and trade show. Jed happened to take this black and white photo of me with the balloons in the background, and it turned out to be the only photo of that convention the paper used. I have this old photo in my office, too.

Seeing his credit line this morning, it was just natural to pick up the phone, call Jed, and congratulate him on bringing such beauty to today's news.

Connections…they are the basis of our business and our lives. I find them through art, photography, friendship, real estate.

Where do you find the connections that enrich your life and your business?