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Mama Always Said

February 28, 2021 by Ogee

Mama always said you cannot pair orange and pink. She was wrong. The apricot and pink tulips in the Memorial Garden are a stunning combination. The birds know… spring has arrived. Our rose arbor is beautifully rebuilt, and the fruit trees are beginning to blossom. What I wish Mama had told me was that the alpacas and goats – sent to new homes this winter after Jody’s passing – were the safety plan for the hibernating tortoises. These beautiful, fifty-year-old […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Dogs, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography • Tags: Spring Garden, Tortoise, Tulips

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

A Postcard

March 18, 2018 by Ogee

I have “met” many interesting people through this blog. Animal lovers. Gardeners. Photographers. Writers. People close to home and people from the four corners of the earth. But never the author of a quote I have shared. Until now. Recently, a request came to the rescue from the author of the poem “Winter is an Etching.” It was quoted here. Sometimes, a quote inspires a photo; more often, I go searching for a quote to match an image. In this […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography, Photography, Thought • Tags: Nature Photography, Spring Garden, spring is a picture postcard, Stanley Horowitz writer, Winter is an etching

When All Is New Again

April 23, 2017 by Ogee

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ~William Shakespeare The garden in April is both young and old. New friends appear… Old friends are reborn. The season was never over. It was just waiting for us to find it again. From cold ground covered in earth and leaves, springs forth our long-lost friends looking new and refreshed; ready to write another season – another chapter in our garden’s journey. “Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bearded Iris, dog rescue, Garden Photography, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Spring Garden

Chief’s Gratitude

April 16, 2017 by Ogee

We have been blessed and blessed and blessed. And if April showers bring May flowers…we are in for quite a show. Our five years of drought are officially over – and with the weekly rains, our gardening has been largely on hold; called on account of cold, soggy ground. Quick to forget, people naturally stopped counting our blessings and started whining, prompting one of my favorite nurseries to send out an email: “Don’t be a grumpy gardener!” To complain about […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: California Drought Over, Dog Rescue Story, Great Dane natural ears, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Labrador Retriever Rescue, Spring Garden

Mac-aroni’s Going Home Day

March 12, 2017 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

Of Gardens and Rescue Dogs

March 5, 2017 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

Learning to Dance in the Rain

April 10, 2016 by Ogee

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.” ~ Henry David Thoreau By accident, fate, or by design – life took some interesting twists and turns in the last few weeks. Some sad, some scary. But one thing I’ve learned: life just happens. When the storms come – […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: April Rain, Garden in Rain, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Photography, Spring Garden, Thoreau Rain Quote