Veronica and Kristi on their horses. According to Veronica and Kristi, one of the great joys of living in the country is having the opportunity to ride their horses. Whether they are participating in barrel race competitions or simply taking advantage of a lovely day on a trail ride, life is good when shared with…
COPPER! That beautiful beagle puppy looking up at you with those big brown eyes is COPPER. Copper belongs to Liz and Everett, and in today’s photographs, he is a brand new puppy but now he’s already six months old and getting really big, according to his “Mom and Dad”. Liz says, “Everett and I got…
Wild Word Friday! I love to hear about the Scripps National Spelling Bee each year – hear about it, not watch it, because my heart aches too much for those who don’t quite make it to that coveted last-person-standing place of honor. The winner this year was Snigdha Nandipati, and the last word she…
Cleo & Nemo in their aquatic wonderland! These two beautiful goldfish are an unusual but popular breed known as the Red-capped Fancy Oranda Goldfish, a variety of carp bred to develop a hood or wen at the top of the head. As Cleo and Nemo get older, their wens will develop even more fully. Orandas…
Wild Word Friday! To be perfectly honest, OID is not a word. It’s actually a syllable, and it comes to us from the Greek suffix -oeides, which is used to indicate a form or a shape. In other words, OID indicates that something is like something else. That’s exactly how we use this suffix…
Each June, the folks on a beautiful little island in northern Lake Huron (Michigan) celebrate a lilac festival. The island is Mackinac Island, (pronounced Mac-i-naw) famous for its horses, its Victorian-era charm and of course its lilacs. For years, in my little hometown of Pickford the Mackinac horses come to our wide fields to spend…
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