by Carole Duff | Sep 30, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Nature, Writing and Reading |
If you live in temperate or cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps you’ve seen woolly bear caterpillars crossing the road lately. Heathcliff and Freya nose a few during our morning walks, causing the 1.5-inch, 13-segment black and red-brown-orange banded...
by Carole Duff | Sep 23, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures |
“Welcome, I’m so happy to see you! Please come in,” I said to our dinner guests as I opened the door. Heathcliff and Freya barked furiously, hackles up, and rushed in front of me. “Hi there, puppies,” John and Fran addressed the dogs with enthusiasm while trying to...
by Carole Duff | Sep 16, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature |
Last week, a cold front came across the eastern part of the county, moving in the typical pattern from northwest to southeast. On the weather map, a blue line with triangles swept away temperatures in red. Cool, dry air replaced the warm humidity of the previous...
by Carole Duff | Aug 26, 2013 | Nature |
Once in a blue moon happened last week, something seldom, rare, occurring almost never or not at all. Well, not exactly. Actually, blue moons happen relatively often. A blue moon is either the second of two full moons in a calendar month or the third of four full...
by Carole Duff | Aug 12, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Nature |
skunk (skngk) n. 1.a. Any of several small, mostly carnivorous New World mammals of the genus Mephitis and related genera, having a bushy tail and black fur with white markings and ejecting a foul-smelling oily liquid from glands near the anus when frightened or...
by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2013 | Nature |
You’re taking a shower in your townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia. It is a few years ago, but the memory remains vivid. With your freshly clean wet hair wrapped in a towel, you open the bathroom door and behold a dark brown bat with eight-inch wingspan heading your...
