The Man and The Polar Bear

Spring                                                                  Bee Hiving Moon If you’re a dog lover, you’ll find this interesting.  Bears and dogs are of the order Carnivora and the […]

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A Quiet New Year

Winter                            Full Moon of Long Nights We have gained back a few minutes since the Winter Solstice, so the New Year will arrive, as it does every year, with a bit more daylight than the grimmer days of mid-winter. The neighbors have begun to shoot off fireworks.  They are a restrained lot for the most […]

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New Dogs

Beltane                      Waning Dyan Moon Something hinky with the 1&1 servers today. (my web host)  Couldn’t get on until late.  Back now. I spent the morning and late afternoon working on an America’s tour for a group of design students at the College for the Visual Arts.  The theme came with some difficulty, but I decided […]

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Pictures. Puppies and Plants.

Beltane                    Waxing Dyan Moon Poppa (the big gray wolfhound, Guiness) and his children.  Our new pups are in this picture, but I can’t pick them out. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The orchard early in its first growing season.  Currants in the foreground to the right, cherries and plums the trees in mid-ground. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– A potato eye view of […]

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Puppies

Beltane                    Waxing Dyan Moon Kate and I went out this afternoon to Loretto, near Corcoran.  This is a horsey part of the metro, but we wanted to look at dogs, specifically an Irish Wolfhound and Walker Coyote Hound mix.  The man who bred them, Julian Lehman, has the unusual occupation of master of the hunt.  […]

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When The Bell Tolls, It Tolls For Tor and Celt and Morgana…

Imbolc   Waning Wild Moon Our Arcosanti bell has rung and rung today.  A north wind has blown in at speeds up to 24 mph. Kate bought this bell quite a while ago on a trip to see her father.  When she brought it back, we had just experienced two Wolfhound deaths, I believe it was […]

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A Bad Break

68  bar steady 29.65  2mph  ESE  dew-point 56  Beltane, Sunny and sort of warm                        First Quarter of the Flower Moon  “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell My docent friend, Bill Bomash, fell 10 feet into […]

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The Scent of Spring

2  56%  22%  6mph W bar 29.54  steep rise windchill-5                 Last Quarter of the Winter Moon Kate brought me a spray of yellow tulips two days ago.  They have opened now and have the scent of spring. We’re seeking another dog, looking at Irish Wolfhound and  Scottish Deerhound rescues on the internet.  We won’t […]

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The Stomach Has Its Desires

 22  85%  26%  0mph  NNE  bar 29.97 falls  YuleTide           Waning Gibbous Cold Moon  Excerpt of a poem by William Stafford, Choosing A Dog Your good dogs, some things that they hear they don’t really want you to know — it’s too grim or ethereal. And sometimes when they look in the fire they see […]

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