It's a Decade!

I've been looking forward to this day for months, but in the end it crept up on me. Here it is, though, 10 years since I began this blog on February 7, 2010.

I'm thankful beyond measure that I've been able to press on in this endeavor, even when time and troubles and life itself have thrown roadblocks in the way.

A Walker in the Suburbs is not fashionable, it's not slick. It's just a few words every day. But it's a place to collect my thoughts, and it reminds me that if you stick with a project, in the end you have a body of work. As you can see from my first post (linked and pasted below) that's all I ever wanted.

February 7, 2010

Blue skies today and people are stirring again. I went out early with the camera to capture the trees covered in white. Already the high branches are bare, blown clean of snow, springlike with swollen buds. The fir trees look like models from a miniature of the North Pole, their snowy covering like sugar icing. It’s colder today, about 15 when I woke up, and every so often a breeze blows the snow off the trees and creates a whirl of white, a brief flicker of snow fog. I think back two days ago to those first flakes in the Target parking lot. From those first flakes this white world was wrought. The snow has clung to every available surface. The most spindly branches of the forsythia have “Vs” of snow, and I can imagine the accumulation, patient and slow, crystal attracting crystal until little pockets formed. I hope this blog will be the same, a slow, patient accumulation of words.

(Thanks to Celia for her wonderful congratulations sign!)