Wordless Wednesday: Milo
by Ogee
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Blind dog, Blind Golden Retriever
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Joy Spread. Joy Returned.
by Ogee
“Don’t you just want to take them all home?” new volunteers ask in worry. The truth is, no. My two boys fill my heart and our home. And while we truly enjoy our occasional tiny foster guests, the quiet following the mayhem is blissful. That doesn’t mean that it is easy to say ‘goodbye.’ Adoption days at the rescue are often bittersweet. But our job is to be the bridge on the dogs’ journeys to their own forever homes. If […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Dog Adoption Stories, Dog foster, Dog Photography, dog rescue, Puppy Adoption
With Gratitude
by Ogee
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson For the community I have found, for the generosity that makes our work […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Garden Golden Retrievers, Gratitude, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Photography, Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, Thanksgiving
Puppy Love On Loan
by Ogee
Sometimes the universe has a twisted sense of timing. We received a request for urgent help a couple of weeks ago. While a Golden lover was picking up her new puppy half the country away, she got word that her senior heart dog, Sully, was failing – and fast. She rushed home with the still unnamed puppy in tow to receive the prognosis we all dread: she had some time – but little of it. And while her boy could […]
Categories: Dog Fostering • Tags: Dog Photography, Dogs, Fostering, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Golden Retriever Puppy
Autumn is the Hush
by Ogee
“I’m not ready for winter” is the refrain I hear as the fog sets in and the volunteers don their winter wools. But I am. Or nearly so. The garden is putting on its final show – a glorious crown to a long, hot summer. As if it saved up all its energy for a final encore, displaying its growing maturity in tall drifts of purple, orange, pink and gold. By the end of the month, the raising of the […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography, Photography • Tags: Autumn quotes, dog rescue, Dogs, Fall Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento
Everything In Its Season
by Ogee
I love the velvety purple stalks of Mexican sage. It heralds fall; its amethyst hues offset by the season’s golden leaves. A perennial in most gardens – but not in our Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. It is too wet in winter, and too hot in summer. The clay soil and baking sun are too much for this tough, but not quite tough enough, sage. The first three seasons, I moved it to different spots in the garden hoping I would […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Rescue • Tags: Dog Loss, dog rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, In Its Season Henry David Thoreau
