I’ve already promised (or threatened) to create separate posts for recent adventure and wildlife photos, since I’m still catching up from the Great Blog Silence of 2018, so let’s just decide right now that our Year in Review will exclude anything having to do with climbing mountains. 2018 was a year of endings and new […]
I’ve been obsessed with foxes lately, but this fearless bobcat (captured on my security feed) strutted right past me on Sunday afternoon, and now I’m whipsawing between worry and delight. Worry, because my kitty Mithril wants to sneak out the back door every chance he gets. Delight, because hey, we have a neighborhood bobcat. As […]
Every year at Halloween, Dulcinea dresses up for our cameras, and this year her pumpkin-themed photo shoot took place in the Bear Canyon Arroyo, near our new home. The arroyo is a wilderness cutting through the center of the city, and the coyotes, the foxes, and the mountain lions use the broad riverbed to make […]
Happy Easter, everyone! The daffodils are putting on a show. They don’t last, as A. E. Housman reminds us in The Lent Lily, which makes them all the more precious. I don’t expect these chocolates to last either, though I myself am guiltless in the matter. Sometime in the mid-90’s, I lost my taste for […]
It may be cold outside, but Dulcinea and I are in a hot frenzy getting ready for Valentine’s Day. Though we don’t take the holiday particularly seriously, we do have our little household traditions: heart-shaped waffles for breakfast, lots of red garishly mixed with pink. Dulcinea gets a taste of strawberry rhubarb yogurt as a […]
In my last post, written in December, I used the phrase “ludicrously cold” to describe a brisk day in Colorado. That was perhaps a mistake, since I subsequently spent New Year’s Eve (and much of the week that followed) in northern Minnesota, where wind chills reached a bitter -50F for three nights in a row. […]
It’s ludicrously cold this week, and the robins eating our berries are fatter than ever. I’ve been coping with the chilly weather by knitting hats for holiday gifts. This particular hat is definitely not for Dulcinea. The storms came through and made everything beautiful. We had brunch at Chautauqua’s old dining hall, arriving in the […]
With a life jacket, a squeaky rubber fish, and lots of love, any dog can learn to swim. Making friends is an important part of growing up. Donkeys can be your friends. There are many dogs in the world, but there’s no one exactly like you.