by Carole Duff | Jun 10, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Heathcliff and I took our short walk today, between this morning’s rain and thunderstorms due later this afternoon. As usual, we guarded our steps down the steep, gravel driveway, turned left to traverse the flat turn-around, then picked our way down the mountain...
by Carole Duff | Jun 3, 2019 | Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
My daughter, granddaughter, and I had cruised the aisles of a local grocery store called Fusion on Sunday morning and were walking back to Jessica’s flat in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. My granddaughter was doing what most two-year-old children do: insisting on climbing...
by Carole Duff | May 27, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
My daughter Jessica and I amble along the road toward The Peak in western Hong Kong. It’s the rainy season—warm, humid, misty, and foggy. Welcome breezes cool us and ward off bugs, though we sprayed our exposed skin with repellent before starting out. There are other...
by Carole Duff | May 20, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
We sip our drinks and munch on fresh-cut veggies with homemade hummus while sitting on the terrace, facing the Three Ridges Wilderness area. It’s late Friday afternoon, the end of the week, time to kick back and relax before supper. Inside the house, Heathcliff...
by Carole Duff | May 13, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature |
“Keith, Keith! Look out the dormer window!” “What? Where?” “There’s a snake draped on top of the tomato trellis above the square foot garden.” “I see it now. Maybe its hunting birds or camouflaging itself against hawks.” Birds often perched on the trellis. And a...
by Carole Duff | May 6, 2019 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
A couple of weeks ago, a wood thrush banged into one of our windows. Other birds have done the same and recovered, like last summer’s Scarlet Tanager and more recently, this yellow-bellied sapsucker. Keith and I had not seen wood thrushes here at Vanaprastha, though...
