Hubby and I are trying to adopt a healthy lifestyle by walking after dinner. So off we went to experience health. The smell of sweet grass hung in the air while rabbits and chipmunks scurried around chasing butterflies and bugs. An idyllic evening to catch up on the days events. I slowed my gait slightly …
Day 186 – Pet Parade
There are three things (probably more) that people who live in Bend love . . . their outdoor sports, their micro-brews . . . and their pets. Every Fourth of July, Bend puts on a pet parade through downtown. I had never been to one of the parades before and thought this would be a …
Day 142 – Mowing the Lawn
We have a family of rock chucks, aka yellow-bellied marmots, aka whistling pigs, who live in a field behind our office. I haven't seen them for a while, but today they came out to eat. They look as if they're mowing the lawn - head down in the grass, grazing forward. It appears we have …
Day 120 – Visitors in my Garden
It has been a very busy weekend and I haven't had much opportunity to get out and take photos. Today, I was cutting back weeds and plants in our "lunar bin" area and had a couple of visitors. One was a covey of quail and the other was our neighbors cat who was enjoying the …
Day 117 – My Deer Friends
As I am writing the post, I am looking out my window to fluffy flakes of snow drifting down from the heavens. As the saying in this area goes, it isn't spring until the snow falls on the dogwoods. So I guess it's officially spring. Our deer friends were back this morning only one was …
