We are heading for an Animal Christmas this year, and I will share it with you good people. We are spending Christmas Day together, with each other and our new home and the animals who shape much of our lives. We are shopping for presents for each of them- biscuits, apples, carrots – and we will thank each one of them for the work, love and connection they bring us, for keeping us connected to the vanishing natural world, for grounding us, teaching us, talking to us.

I’ll take photos on Christmas Day and share them. Today, off to Glens Falls to pick up Maria’s sewing machine and to get food for our simple Christmas dinner – multi-grain pizza, I think, with roast vegetables. I’ll post the recipe later. Meanwhile, we seem to have awoken to a white Christmas.