Once, while hiking the Hundred Mile Wilderness in Maine, I woke up to the sound of splashing in the small pond our tent overlooked. Rising to observe, I watched a moose swim across the pond, climb out the other side, shake himself off and disappear over the hill on the opposite shore. I never saw…
Yesterday, after thirteen lucky years together, our black lab Bodhi took his last breath. Forgive me for this brief eulogy. There was the time you dug up every tulip bulb I’d just planted because you smelled the bone meal I used to fertilize them. There was the winter when we thought you escaped and were…
I’m trying to establish better habits – nothing new there, I’ve written about it before. When I’m home, my morning habit starts with helping Bodhi get up and outside for a little relief. I drink a pint of water and brew coffee while he’s outside, and read a little. Simple start-the-engines stuff. I take stock…
This morning Venus was dancing with the crescent moon, while Juniper looked on with envy. The air is brutally cold this morning, but getting outside before the sunrise has its benefits. Watching this tango was one of them. Sadly I couldn’t get a decent picture of conjunction of these three, but I’m glad to have…