I’ve been a little busy at work lately so I haven’t posted much.  But in case you were wondering, the end of summer happened here in Baltimore sometime last Wednesday.  I noticed when I left work for the day that the swallows had suddenly left their nests in the Space Telescope parking garage.

I’d begun wondering when it was going to happen.  The new chicks were all grown, and it seemed like the flocks were getting restless.  When it happens, it happens all at once.  That morning, at least a few of them were there in the parking garage to greet me.   Then when I came back they were all gone.  The parking garage was quiet.  No crazy swallow chirping and darting around like little arrows.  Just…quiet.

So they’re on their way to their southern nesting grounds.  Sometimes I wish I could go with them.  It’s quiet now when I arrive at work.  Summer’s over.