A female downy woodpecker on the suet

 

Little Alice curled up like a croissant by me on the bed

 

Leonard starting to play

He has only three legs and only one good eye

 

The beautiful light in Joanna and Tamas' upstairs

 

The bare crabapple through the bedroom window and the glass front door

 

Nigel on my chest WILLING me to get off the phone and take him for a walk

 

The front yard, typical but for the light powdered sugar dusting of snow

 

oh squirrel digging under the bird feeder

 

Walking the dogs as it starts to snow

 

A couple of big, beautiful bulldogs came running up to the door at a house I was delivering to

 

Alice's ears blown open by the wind

 

A delivery to a mansion with a doorbell shaped like a lion and its customer in bare feet

 

The two dogs wondering and waiting for me on the stoop - it was cold.

 

A big funky sweet potato and some broccoli

 

Troubled today

 

Two little kids looking at the lake

 

Trying to think of something to draw

 

At Joanna and Tamas'

  Pablo - and - A perfect espresso in a beautiful cup

Cloudy day, birds ascending

 

Nigel abandoning his game of fetch to smell something interesting

 

Nigel with a chew stick

 

Nigel and Alice greeting me

Nigel holds a mini tennis ball and goes in circles.  Alice smiles and wags.

 

Full moon behind some clouds

 

Nigel and me running together

 

Nigel & Alice gained weight while I was gone

 

The little girl who sat next to me on the plane getting blown by the wind

Chana's bunny

 

A man with a baby pig in his jacket

 

Driving by the pecan orchards in the low sun in front of the mountains

 

Jax tilting his head when Chana did howling

 

Chana's dogs

 Jax bringing me a toy and Dixie's butt sticking up out of the hole she's digging

Chana's back yard

with white-winged dove and mountains and Jax and Dixie

 

Jax and Dixie playing, and the shadows they cast

 

An epic temper tantrum in the seat in front of me

 He didn't want to put the seatbelt on

Driving: I started crying when Auld Lang Syne played on the radio

 

Nigel every morning asking for a belly rub

 

Stuck in traffic, I saw a red-shouldered hawk land on a telephone wire

 

The clerk behind the counter was watching me set up their little fallen Christmas display, without me realizing it until she thanked me

 

A family waiting to cross the street

 

A nice young woman at a fancy company gave me Swedish chocolates when I mentioned their Dala horse

 

Spinning out on the ice on Linn Street

 Am fine.  All are fine.

Nigel with my slipper

 

Nigel, ebullient, running through the empty, snowy streets

 

Nigel catches the ball

 

Visitors to the bird feeder

 

The rat jumped 3 feet in the air when the squirrel tried to get him away from the birdseed

 

Both dogs sat up, surprised to see me, when I got home

 I think I woke them up

Suave Nigel lounging on the pillows

 

A little black and white dog who looked at me when I "woofed" at her

 

A small rat under the bird feeder