by Carole Duff | Mar 4, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Saturday morning, we woke to ice-coated decks and trees. The temperature was right at freezing and rising. I knew the ice would melt and drip on Heathcliff and me during our morning walk, so I donned my rain jacket. What I was not prepared for was the sound of...
by Carole Duff | Jan 28, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
I open the kitchen door, and Freya rushes into the house. Once she’s done with her pre-dawn barking, she’s ready to come in. Now. Anticipating our walk, Heathcliff vacates the favored nest-bed in front of the wood furnace. Freya claims the warmth of both and settles...
by Carole Duff | Feb 5, 2018 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Writing and Reading |
Keith reclined in his chair up in the loft, sipping his late Friday afternoon martini. “I was just flashing back to the year we spent weekends here.” “That was one of my favorite times,” I said, dropping the mail beside his chair and joining his reminiscence. “We’d...
by Carole Duff | Dec 11, 2017 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
It began gently before sunrise on Saturday morning, a cold, steady flow of fine flakes—the season’s first snow. I let Freya out to do her business and bark at the deer foraging in the forest. At daylight, she came back looking like an Iditarod sled-race dog, her fur...
by Carole Duff | Dec 11, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature |
As the season’s first major ice and snowstorm swept across the country this past weekend, our dogs mirrored the concern and exuberance that accompanies such natural events. When I opened the kitchen door to Sunday ‘s early morning ice pellets, Heathcliff stopped in...
