Here's my friend Aesha with our new pet, Roxy, our bantam hen. Roxy is a great snuggler who is never happier than when she is in your lap. Why a hen, you ask? Well, it was just fate. My playmate Thumper and I were in the French Quarter watching the Barkus parade (a wacky parade of dogs in costume). By chance we were invited into a house there with at least 50 chickens in the courtyard. (Though maybe not for long, he said, "This whole neighborhood is going condo.") In short, he wouldn't let us leave the party without a chicken. She rode home on the bike handlebars.
We took Roxy on Spring break in the mountains where we got to see snow falling on flowers, and we took her on a getaway to the cute cottage colony of Grayton Beach, Florida. She joined us on the beach, but not in the water. Which is too bad, because she missed the snorkeling with dolphins! What a fantastic surprise to be with them only an arm's length away.
Trilliums and more in Joel's garden, Weaverville, NC, April, 2009.
