A beautiful cold sunny winter day in Mendocino, I shot this picture of Marcia and Sally enjoying the moment together while Molly and I were engaged in the serious business of flinging and retrieving a ball.
Molly is twelve now and no longer the tireless swimmer and runner she was for most of her life, but she still loves going to the beach and trotting after her ball I now fling into the shallow shallows so she need not do battle with the waves as she used to love to do.
I’m a lunatic. Which is to say, the waxing moon troubles my sleep and inspires strange dreams. Here is the nearly full moon in a purple sky at sunset promising two more days of nocturnal agitation until the blessed waning begins.
Fishing must be good right now off Portuguese Beach in Mendocino Bay, with three fishing boats working the close-to-shore waters there of late.
The last maple leaves take the morning light so beautifully.
We got a bunch of copies of my new book The Dog Who Wanted A Person, and Miruna, the brilliant young illustrator of the book, came over and signed copies to make them extra special.
Soon the last yellow leaves will fall from our blossoming cherry tree, and ere long the Winter Solstice will be upon us, the end of the year, the beginning of the year, the earth continuing to spin and fly through space exactly as far away from the sun as we need to be for maximum amazingness and life going on.
Blessings and thanks for all our friends.
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Todd’s hilarious new book The Dog Who Wanted A Person is now available from your favorite actual bookstore such as Gallery Books in Mendocino and numerous online sources including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.