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Knowing When To Surrender

May 6, 2018 by Ogee

The tree that I mentioned last week which was so concerning me – is gone. The arborist found root rot and no sap running through it. The property has a natural slope away from the barn which helps to keep the dogs drier in the winter, but it flows to the garden when we get big rains. With our clay soil, the water collects and stands in low spots – sometimes for a week at a time. The center of […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Surrender

Launching Pad

April 29, 2018 by Ogee

My author friend met through this blog, Stanley Horowitz, has just completed his new book. Titled “Can You Read the Tea Leaves of Autumn: The Poetic Wisdom of the Four Seasons,” he shared a copy with me. I’m not sure of his plans for it, but I hope he finds a way to publish it. The book is a continuation of the theme established in his now famous quote with his keen and poetic observations of each month of the […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography • Tags: #gardening, dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography, Spring Garden

Second Chances: Look Back

April 15, 2018 by Ogee

Working on a special project, I have been looking back at some old photos (if you can call them that) dating back to when I first began volunteering at the rescue. They are pretty bad. I can’t believe I had the audacity to post them. Just goes to show: I’m still capable of growth and learning at my advanced age! Two volunteers, Chris and Steve, make repeated appearances as they were fixtures at the rescue at the time. I have […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Golden Retreiver Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Second Chances

Follow Up Friday: Tag – Now Max

March 16, 2018 by Ogee

I did not recognize him – this gorgeous hunk of dog. But he seemed to know me. And then – the head tilt. The telltale sign of a once ruptured ear membrane – and those eyes. It was Tag. Now Max. One of the Korea dogs that came to us two years ago in March. Rescued from a dog meat market by the Humane Society International, and brought to us with three others by the San Francisco SPCA. While most […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Korea Dog Rescue

Wordless Wednesday: Windows to the Soul

March 14, 2018 by Ogee

Categories: Dogs, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Photography • Tags: Dog Photography, dog rescue, Dog's Eyes, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Golden Retriever, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue

This Time It’s Real

March 11, 2018 by Ogee

It’s finally spring. This time it’s real. I know because the Tulips told me… the Anemone told me… the Grape Hyacinth told me… and the mud fest told me! “Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog.”

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Anemone, Dogs playing in mud, Early Spring Flowers, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Grape Hyacinth, Tulips unfolding

The Charmed Life of a Garden Cat Named Frida

February 25, 2018 by Ogee

The north wind that blew in mid-month stayed. Spring is nothing if predictably unpredictable. We went from t-shirts to down jackets and mittens within 24 hours. While the overnight thermometer dropped below freezing for a week, it stayed close enough – thankfully – to have little impact on our opening blueberry and apple blossoms. And now, there is much-needed rain on the horizon. But today, we all soaked up the warm spring sun. A butterfly (Mourning Cloak?) warming its wings […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Rescue • Tags: Cat photography, Frida, Garden Cat, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Spring

A Change In The Wind

February 11, 2018 by Ogee

“In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.” ~ Mark Twain Friday, I played hooky for a few hours and snuck out to the garden. Within minutes, I was peeling off layers like an onion and thinking it was time to move the winter clothes into storage. A week of mid-70’s in early February gets me dreaming about planting spring annuals, but I have wised up a bit […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography • Tags: Ceanothus, Early Spring Flowers, Garden in Spring, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Hellebore, Loddon Lily, Love in a Mist, Quince Blossom, Spring

Puppy Love On Loan

November 19, 2017 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