Missing May Already

Okay, I've been laying really low for the past million months working on my next novel Me Since You and I am really, really happy to say that it's headed out to my new editor on Monday morning. Fingers crossed for what comes next.

And in the meantime spring has been sending over lots of interesting animals to commune with:


I know you've seen her before but she's just so rumply and good-natured I have to post her again. And again, lol.





I haven't seen her in a about two weeks now, so I hope she's just off having some wee ones and will bring them back so I can delight over them.

And then the next happy go luck visitor:


The next was a fox I didn't get a photo of but right after that came the big boy bear in the middle of the day. I waited inside until he was far enough away and then took this:


Just so you know, he was WAY across the property and still looks big in the picture. I also missed getting a photo of the snake that crawled across my doorstep but it was an Eastern Milk Snake and didnt get my little toad buddy here, thank goodness:


And the latest visitor is this lovely Wood Turtle I found in the road and who dove straight into the pond and is swmming around with her head up like the Loch Ness Monster, so... Nessie it is.


Actually, the latest was a tiny fawn curled up and hiding in the tall grass waiting for her mama to return. No pictures because I didnt want to scare her but she was about the size (curled up) of a hearty loaf of Challah bread with big, brown eyes. Beautiful. And yesterday at around 1:30 in the afternoon a lone coyote started to howl right nearby and oh, that sound is so evocative.

Also, this showed up on my dining room table in May, thanks to my family who came up for my birthday. YUM.


I do love New Jersey bakeries, boy. Candles to blow out everywhere, lol.

So it's been a fabulous month: spring, birthday, animals and Me Since You. Hope all is well with you guys!