1. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
2. La Rose by Louise Erdich
3. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
4. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Ruin of all Witches, Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskell
6. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Skipper, Nantucket, Mass.

Nantucket Island Massachusetts. This sign, at Gardiner’s Corner, seems to ask “Where in the world do you want to go from here?” as if anyone would ever want to leave Nantucket.

Cows near Johnny Fox’s Pub, Dublin, Ireland

I am back from my whirl wind trip to Dublin Ireland. Lots of memories.

2023 in Review: WC’s 2023 Person of the Year

MARABOU STORK

2023 in Review: Revisiting WC’s Wishes for 2023

EUROPEAN GREEN WOODPECKER

An Open Letter to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson

WC’s Version: Seventh Day of Christmas

Squares Blanket

I came across this photo of a knitted blanket I made some years ago. I don’t remember it but the photo was taken in the back garden of our house in Dublin, which is a clue. Over the years we were periodically in Dublin before we moved overseas to work in St. Lucia, Fiji, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ghana, or Kenya.