Remember India’s baby?  My friend Jenny Carolan, her owner, recorded her first wobbly steps just a few short months ago.  Now baby has shed out her dun-colored newborn coat and is a stunning black beauty, just like her mama.  Here’s a recent video in which Clara the filly is shown busting out some new moves.

I was in a rush so excuse the sloppy editing job please. And, if you can’t view video, click here.

Last night I had dinner with my friend Candace Bushnell. She showed me a video of some very young snapping turtles that she and her perfect poodle puppy Pepper had found in her yard yesterday.  They had been out walking when Candace noticed what she first thought was a leaf scooting across the grass. Then she saw another one. Then she realized that she was traipsing through a little snapping turtle nursery. She recognized them as snappers by their pointy snouts. She didn’t like where they were, so close to the road, so she transported them to a stream and watched them turtle earnestly away.

Our lakehouse eyesore has no running water or electricity yet, but it is still on a beautiful part of the lake that I have fallen madly in live with.  I go there every day just to gaze out at the water from the open windows. There’s always a cool breeze and sometimes in the late afternoon, if the light is right, the dull, moldy walls of the eyesore are transformed into undulating waves of dazzling motion and the rooms feels like it might just float right out across the lake and over the hills beyond.