Absence

We're back from our long absence! We've been living in the Pit of Despair for the last few weeks:

You see, it has been opera time here at the University of Western Ontario for the past few weeks, and both of us were playing in the pit orchestra for Mozart's Don Giovanni.

It was, above all, an exhausting experience, hence the complete lack of energy for anything else (eg A Tree and Its Leaves). But now it's all over

(the last performance was yesterday) and we're allowed to get back to our more or less regular lives.