RED SQUIRREL

Sorry I haven't been posting lately, anyway here is a red squirrel that has been harassing my cat.

DOG WITH HANDLE

We got this "handle" for Thatcher so we can pick him up when he falls and help him walk on the slippery floors.

APPLE BLOSSOMS

I was hanging around the house today and decided to take a photo of some apple blossoms from the tree in my back yard.

JONATHAN EDWARDS MONUMENT

Stockbridge, MA - This is a monument to Rev. Jonathan Edwards that preached to the Indians in the area as well as the early white settlers. This monument is across the street from where the first church in Stockbridge stood.

MAPLES

I was driving down the road and noticed these maples all with similar limbs hanging over the road.

THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN GOOD

Things haven't been too good around here lately and I haven't felt like blogging too much. A few weeks ago I got laid off from my job and the same day I brought my dogs to the vet and found out one of my dogs has an enlarged heart and the other has some kind of neurological problem and can hardly walk or even stand up on his own.


This is Thatcher, who is not even two, today he is having a good day; he has been walking around the yard without falling down.


Here you can see where he had his neck shaved to have a spinal tap. I brought him to a specialist but they cannot figure out what is wrong. We will just have to keep our fingers crossed that he can get better or at least not any worse. The hard part is I have to carry him up and down our 25 inch stairway(he weighs between 80 and 85 pounds) and bring him outside. Once outside he does better because he can get a grip so he can walk.



This is Sophie, she has the enlarged heart and rests a lot. But, all you have to do is ask her if she wants to go for a ride or go to day care and she perks right up. She looks a little disheveled because she likes to be outside and sometimes she is lying in the wet grass.

WREATH STAND

On the way to Suffield, CT I passed by this stand selling wreaths.

SKUNK CABBAGE - ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING

Here is a big ole Skunk Cabbage plant. Leafy and doesn't smell unless you break the plant.


This is a plant with the seed pods,


A patch of Skunk Cabbage. These plants are found in very moist areas. When I was very small in a time where kids used their imagination more, at least that's what I think, I used to pretend that I had a Skunk Cabbage Plantation. There was a patch of Skunk Cabbage of about a half acre in the woods behind my Uncle's house. Hey, it looked like a field of tobacco, so it was not that far off. I'm not sure what I did with it, I am not every sure I "harvested" it.

FIRST FROG SIGHTING OF THE YEAR

This was my first frog sighting of 2008.

HISTORIC SOUTH LEE SCHOOLHOUSE

Lee, MA - I've driven by this building many times and it is always in this same condition. I see by the sign out front that it is going to be restored and sold as two 3000 ft residental units. I went on the website of Lanoue Inc to see what I could find out and they have a video of what they plan the building to look like.

So why don't you be the first one on your block to have a home in the Berkshires, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Tanglewood. I really would like see what this building would look like when it is done.