Wow! Have you ever seen a bobcat? We had a chance to get up close and personal with one just this past week. When we got home to our New Mexico adobe, a momma bobcat
and her half-grown kitten were hanging around in our yard!
No reason to call animal control – because we live parttime in an addition of homes in the scrub desert of New Mexico, and we share the area with wild creatures who are used to sharing their habitat
with …

These hot September afternoons I’m looking for the shade of the tree, a place to relax and contemplate the change of the seasons.

Today, I’ll read once again this poem by Robert Frost, and think about it. Will you join me?

“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could …

It’s in the Air.
What?
Hmmm. I think Fall is coming.

Once again, as the days roll past  I begin to anticipate fall.
It’s in the air – it’s in the slant of the light.
The days are slightly cooler in the mornings, and the sun rises later and sets earlier. We begin losing daylight quickly, and it won’t be long before leaves begin to turn in the northern states and
higher altitudes. It will be a few weeks before my …