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Windows on Wildlife: Thorin

Welcome to the 16th edition of  Windows on Wildlife!  If you have a recent post about wildlife you’d like to share – it can be anything: birds, insects, mammals – scroll down to the end of the post and add your site; a compilation of all additions will be posted the following week. Please don’t forget [...]

Saying Goodbye

I’m going to have to share this news eventually, and since I’m dealing with some of the follow-up details at the moment I figured it might as well be now. But I’m having trouble finding the right words…. brevity would seem cold, but I don’t think I have the emotional fortitude to say this with [...]

Two Meals and Some Tracks – Nature Notes from a Monday Walk

I owe many thanks today to both Michelle from Rambling Woods, and my lovely dog Freya. Between the two of them, I got myself out of the house for a little walk in the woods behind our house, and made some fun discoveries. I’m at home sick today with the last remains of a stomach [...]

Is That A Purebred?

I get this question from time to time when I’m out and about with Freya – our adopted German Shepherd. I wrote about her arrival from a kill-shelter in Alabama at my personal blog last year, but thought it might be time for a follow-up, now that she’s been with us for just over a [...]

A Thursday Edition of Wordless Wednesday

I was so excited about  the really cool glow-in-the-dark millipedes, that I forgot all about doing Wordless Wednesday yesterday. So I’m making up for it today. I was inspired by Another Jennifer’s Wordless Wednesday post yesterday (thanks Jennifer!), so I’m sharing a photo of my beautiful girl Freya (with my youngest son in the background, [...]