The photo is my dinner date each evening, a young raccoon who climbs up onto my second-story deck and cleans all the leftover sunflower seeds […]
Tag: animals
Hidden costs. And hidden benefits.
Mind you, I am moving at the busiest part of the summer for me, into a house that is being cleared, cleaned, and painted in […]
Rice Lake: muskrat love.
This morning, I walked down to the coffee shop, past the lake. It’s not a big lake, but it’s lovely, and at this time of […]
Trying to type with the cat’s forehead pressed against my wrist.
She really is the cutest thing, the Comic Sans of cats. I really cannot wait to post some pics of her (sooooon). But it is […]
Grackles need to eat, too. I guess.
I feed a lot of birds and squirrels. This winter, with it being so cold and all, I was putting out two quarts of food […]
Five things.
Last week, I saw a bluebird! It was an overcast day, but the bird almost glowed, a shade totally different than the color of bluejays. […]
An idle hour…literally, sixty minutes.
(I have used this pic before, but until this weekend I won’t have a chance to sort out what’s going on with images. Pretend it’s […]
Four things make four-fifths of a post.
Elizabeth is here! E is in transit, halfway between her old life in Seattle and her new life in Longyearbyen, in Svalbard. She is here […]
Spring, breaking.
…in several senses. Spring seems to have started, insofar as today is characterized by relentless heavy rainfall. I would be happier about this if my […]