Survival tales

Yesterday I picked a tick the size of a balloon off my dog’s neck. A tick in the middle of February?

It reminded me of dragonfly I spotted in my backyard shortly after Christmas. He was staggering around like the last cockroach after a nuclear war, but still, it survived the first frost and the Halloween nor’easter.

Incidentally, Shirley Maclain is reviving her career at the Warner Theater on March 25.

Global warming is a mysterious thing.