Our skunk is back. We can tell it’s the same skunk, because it’s a bit of an outlier when it comes to color. It’s not so much black with a white stripe as it is white with a black stripe, with the white extending right up the sides of the tail. Except, the white parts… Continue reading Smells and Scents
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Winter to Spring
Last weekend, Anne invited Tanya and me to sit in the front yard of her house and sip wine. This surprised me some as the temperature only reached about fifty degrees that day and the wind was blowing. One doesn’t turn down such invitations, though, so I pulled on my winter jacket and gloves and… Continue reading Winter to Spring
All Over Town
We had an ice storm in February and ice after that and ice after that. The ice broke branches all over town. What dealt the biggest blow, however, wasn’t all that ice. It was last week’s snowstorm. Flakes started falling early Friday afternoon, a few at first, then thick and fast. Wind howled and… Continue reading All Over Town
Autumn Glow
As we were walking toward the parking lot after dinner at Zukey Lake, I spotted a bald eagle on the wing. It was easy to see, in an otherwise empty blue sky, and flying toward us, distinctive white head to the fore. There were other people near us, making their way to or from the… Continue reading Autumn Glow