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#1 Reason to get up in the morning–Even dreams aren’t this idylic.
Read moreFog, Snow, Sun Beautiful day with the sun raising fog spirits to worship in the snow. Still snow tonight but its melting.
Read moreTouch in Yesterday’s Snow When our family rescued Touch, from the pound nearly a year ago it was a cold snowy morning even in the coastal area where the pound is located. Normally, like today, when the ground gets white, I cancel all appointments and stay home. I don’t like to drive in this kind of weather. But I knew
Read moreThey halted our demolition of a building temporarily–two fledglings huddled in a mud and grass nest. But, when the mother hadn’t returned by the next day and the babies were peeping furiously, I was elected to raise them. Actually, the rest of my husband’s family humored me. In this heat, without a mother, they considered the two birds dead meat
Read moreYesterday, driving up unmarked forest service trails, branches gnawed thin gray lines in the paint of our pickups. And they revealed the fissures of age in my father. Even crumpled by MS, to me, he had still appeared undaunted—this summer he clambered about using his walker to get a ladder so that he could fix the roof. He drove his
Read moreMost years Christmas comes with a hazy glow but some years the Christmas spark just won’t ignite. A few years ago I remember whining (or gassing as a friend calls it)… “We had to go Christmas tree hunting again. I wish we could just buy the dang thing like normal people. But…” It’s a tradition and for at least twenty-five
Read moreIn large gobbling flocks, wild turkeys strut unconcerned through the hills of Humboldt. Some of them taunt our dog by gawking at her from the ridges on either side of the house. They know no fear. Like the counter culture hippies who moved here in the early seventies, the birds are not native to Northern California. Turkeys, like the white
Read moreShe’s a delicate damsel wearing a ridiculous sun hat. I’d like to introduce you but I don’t know her name.
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