Nested

In the spring, a pair of robins built a nest in the transom window above our front door. We were treated to a front row seat as they built the nest, laid eggs, hatched them, fed their babies and eventually sent them out into the world. Several times I taped a Flip camera on to the window to film them. Several other times I sat on our stairs, with my Canon T2i trained on the nest, capturing the action as the parents came and went with worms and bugs to feed the chicks. And as luck would have it, my wife dragged me out of bed very early one morning to capture the last baby leaving the nest.

This took me a long time to produce. Partly due to the hours of footage that I needed to sift through but mostly because my desktop suffered a serious breakdown, forcing me to overhaul it. There are a dozen other excuses, none of them particularly interesting. But last night I found out my script Hive had not advanced to the quarterfinals of the Nichol Fellowship competition. That hit me pretty hard but also made me more determined. So I threw myself at this project to finish it. And that made me feel a lot better because I'm pretty damn proud of this.