Here's South Boundary Avenue, where we drove the tandem of horses. The road is lined with beautiful oaks not entirely in bloom yet.

Here's my hostess, Ann Wicander, practicing her polo swing.

Here's the Tandem hooked up and ready to go.

Aiken

I just returned from a wonderful warm week in Aiken, S.C. One of the highlights of the trip, other than finding a rental for next winter, was driving with Joan Schisler, who is known for driving Tandems. She has two Morgans, one which was 28yrs. old. She took me for a wonderful drive through all of the nook and crannies in the city and through the Hitchcock Woods. What a treat! Here's a photo with one horse hooked up and one of her Westies waiting for his driver.

Circe's Portrait

I've taken the images off because there is distortion that needs to be rectified.

Daily snowshoe walk with the dogs

I'm still snowshoeing every morning. If I go early I can manage to stay on top of the crust. Here's a photo I took from this morning's walk. Both dogs are in the photo. I put bells on so they warn the animals they're arriving. There are more deer tracks now that the snow's beginning to melt . In the woods it's still one to two feet deep in snow.

Tame Grouse

This is a tame wild grouse, if that makes any sense. We found him in our neighboring woods last fall. He would follow us everywhere getting within a few feet of us. He would greet me everytime I entered the woods. The deer hunters as well. Over the winter I found a pile of grouse feathers and was afraid it was him but to my delight I was walking the "bird" dogs a few days ago and there he was, crossing my path within a few feet of Whiska, my Griffon, and myself! I thought she was going to have a heart attack she was shaking so much. He seemed totally unconcerned and continued to hang out with us, chirping to us the whole time. I'm hoping to get another photo of him for he's matured a lot since this photo was taken. I can't believe he's survived the winter. We have so many coyotes, owls, and fox. Just amazing.