I was sitting on the deck one morning this past week and heard the thrumming of hummingbirds. I tilted my head back to see a ruby and emerald pair hovering in the air above me, come for one of the feeders hanging from the eaves of the house. (I had heard years ago that if […]
At 7:20 this morning, Isabel began calling for me, baaing loudly to let me know it was time for breakfast. If I’m not out there by 7:30, the sheep come down the path through the pasture area where they spend the night to the fence right next to the house and raise a chorus that […]
For the past three months, I’ve been watching my two cats adjust to the arrival of a refugee, an 18-year-old cat whose guardian, a close friend of mine, asked me a month before she died to take him in. There are many messages in how all three cats have responded to the change in their […]