Hi all, Val’s wrapping up her regular infusion this morning with a view of pigeons on the spine of a roof across the way. All her numbers (white and red blood count, and about 45 other things) are back in the normal range. The doc is thrilled she’s exercising and Continue Reading
birds
a few other things that are good
The bushtits have found the suet I put out. Bushtits are tiny feathered mushrooms of birds, very chatty and always in little surging groups, like teenagers. They show up suddenly and in force, little avian flash mobs, shouting squeaky dumb jokes back and forth as they hang by their claws Continue Reading
like shaved chocolate, like magnetic filings, like fragments of the whole
Here are some things that happened today and yesterday, both very fine and decent days. Yesterday Valerie called me from Montana. She and the dog were (she explained) sitting on a hill in the back pasture, regarding the sky. Only Tuley did not think they should sit still when there Continue Reading