I've tried... honest I have... and for years—I started this daily account of my meanderings in 2013, after all—I was able to maintain the postings every day. But I was heart-healthy then, and I wasn't take care of a youngster, either. Now, with my heart misbehaving rather seriously and requiring energy-sapping medications... and raising an energy-sapping nine-year-old (that fatigue, since it's couple with joy, I'll take)... well, suffice it to say that I'm having trouble keeping up. But I can still walk most days, and catalog what I discover, so, in the interest of my mental health, the extended vacation is over. Here's the highlight from this warm and sunny day: a new flower fly that, if I'm right about the identification, is an Oblique-banded Pond Fly, a.k.a. Sericomyia chrysotoxoides. Handsome little beast, and a fine way—almost no walking required; it was perched on one of a late-blooming hydrangea—to restart this endeavor. (This is a PS: I did manage, during the unplanned sabbatical, to continue making, if not posting, observations. If I have both time and energy, I'll try to fill in the historical blanks.)