Another American Adventure: Before

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Before

Jubilee was looking so content laying the sun this morning that I hated to interrupt her bliss to take her to the Clip and Dip. But it has to be done. I've let her coat grow in woolly so that she would have some warmth to get her through the cold PA winter. But now she's looking rather unkempt and overgrown. So she's getting the works today. Will post some after photos tomorrow (or whenever I next get to the library, at least by Saturday). Here are more befores:

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Sally ClayJanuary 27, 2011 at 9:42 AM
I love the woolly Jubilee. I think she looks warmer and friendlier with the long locks -- not that she doesn't already. The library looks soothing and tranquil.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.