Dog Days

We’re back from our trip to North Carolina and Virginia. The wheatfield is ready for harvesting: the wheat stalks all bent over. The peaches are nearly ripe. The Bullock’s oriole has stuck around, and there’s now a chicken in residence in the front yard.

It was a wonderful break. We got a good healthy canine fix as well—we spent time with two fine dogs. We met Tsuga, well known to readers of Fragments from Floyd. And we were guests of Emmett, Nicole and Mike’s dog, whom with we played many a game of hedgehog, not to mention sharing several shopping trips to downtown Carrboro. A sketch of Emmett is at right.