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 | Jun 6, 2016 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Early Thursday morning, as I drove the truck down the mountain, heading to class in Charlottesville, I noticed a box turtle poised on the side of the road. I thought of a previous post I’d written about interfering with nature. Since those of us who live on the...
by Carole Duff | Jul 6, 2015 | Local or Human Interest, Nature |
Last week while weeding Japanese stilt grass out of a bank of groundcover, I reached for a clump of grass near the rock flow below the square foot garden. Less than two inches from my hand, a fat snake slithered sluggishly into a hitherto hidden passageway in the...
