Monthly Archives: March 2017
Whoever Makes A Garden
by Ogee
To my wayward gardeners (one excused for her good work with the dogs)… I understand your spring fever, but while you are away, the weeds grow wild and tall. The garden and I carry on without you – because a garden doesn’t make itself. The roses have been fed their poo tea and the narcissus tied back. The paths have been freshly laid. The weeds have been are being pulled and the beds mulched. And the new entry has been […]
Categories: Gardening, Nature, Nature Photography • Tags: California Poppy, Ceanothus, Cherry Blossom, Garden in Spring, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Memorial Garden, Lavatera, Lilac, Nature Photography, Rosebud
Wordless Wednesday: Jakey
by Ogee
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Dog Photography, dog rescue, Labrador Retriever
Life is Good…Today
by Ogee
Sweet Spring. Spirited. Poignant. Boisterous. Fleeting. “And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” Sweet Lindsey… Humphrey… and Gunner. Spirited. Boisterous. Poignant. and fleeting? We cannot say. “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden May they bloom like little miracles. “Life is good…today.”
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Golden Retriever Puppies, Homeward Bound Golden Reriever Rescue
Mac-aroni’s Going Home Day
by Ogee
You don’t have to look at the garden to know that winter is giving way to spring. You can sense it. You don’t have to envision the flowers and trees in bloom. You can smell them. You don’t have to behold the sun to know that it is shining. You can experience its warmth. You don’t have to observe the birds to know their delight in fresh worms and tiny buds. You can hear them. And 10-year-old blind Mac-aroni does […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature • Tags: Blind dog, Ceanothus, Dog Adoption, dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retriever, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Spring Garden, Tulips
Wordless Wednesday: Arthur
by Ogee
Categories: Dog Rescue, Dogs • Tags: Dog Photography, dog rescue, Dogs, Weimaraner
Of Gardens and Rescue Dogs
by Ogee
What a garden needs is time, patience, love, nurturing, hope, and room to grow. What a rescue dog needs… time, patience, nurturing, hope, and room to grow. “One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.” ~ E.A. Bowles The greatest virtues of rescue […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Animal Rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Photography, Spring Garden, Tulips
