It's been way too long since I blogged, but a few days have ganged up on me all at once over these last few weeks.  For those of you who have expressed an interest in and an appreciation for some of my photographs, I humbly thank you.  We have a snowstorm, perhaps, blizzard, bearing down upon us, and my hope is to do some reflecting over the coming hours while fervently praying that the power does not go out!  Where would we be if, suddenly finding ourselves in neolithic conditions, we are forced to reckon with being shut-in - in the cold?  And who are these peculiar creatures with whom I am forced to share more space and time than I'm accustomed?
     In my particular case, I will have to clear a spot in the yard come what may for the four-legged ones who will have to venture out for a potty break now and then.  At least the curly one, Coco, will be hard pressed to find the squirrel or rabbit "pebbles" which she views fondly as nature's treats...Perhaps her breath will be uncontaminated for but a few hours.  And the cat, creatively renamed "Cat" by me, will taunt the curly one in her waking moments and later dream of warmer days and mouse hunts to come......