making tracks

 With temperature fluctuations like this...

...and frequent rain...

...we're seeing a lot of really pretty fog.

Even with the regular frosts, there's more GREEN.

putty root orchids

haircap moss

Pepita approves.

In just three weeks, she'll be a year old.  Time flies!

Remember this tiny puppy?  Maybe 7 or 8 lbs.?

Now she spends her evenings passed out on the couch, all 25 pounds pressed up against my back, snoring like a freight train.

Is she potty trained?  Nope, she still has enough accidents (maybe one a month) that I haven't put any of the house rugs back down.  She still struggles with impulse control with the cats...but she's getting better.

The cats have plenty of places to escape to, anyway.

The Barnacle in my puzzle box.

Frances on his heated pad atop my puzzle shelf.

Calliope on my heated keyboard pad.

My work photography station, with one well-intentioned but somewhat in-the-way cat looking for attention

So many personalities keep things interesting around here!

Hard to believe that we'll be seeing snow again in a few days.  I'd like to get out and inspect the back pond when it happens.  As you can see from this trail cam still, we get a lot of animal tracks back there.

We'll see how it goes!