Kurt Ullrich

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The other night, at dusk, a male deer sporting small velvet antlers grazed in my backyard, just a few feet from where I sat inside. When his antlers are fully grown in late summer or early autumn, the velvet will be gone. Science has shown that what looks like velvet is actually skin with hair, blood vessels, and nerve endings to nourish the growing antlers.

4 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It’s more silhouette than photo, the one I took last week of my pure-black senior cat, Pippa. She is on a windowsill in the guest bedroom, looking at a quilted cat given to us many years ago.

4 weeks ago | telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich

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4 weeks ago | telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich

RURAL AMERICA — It’s more silhouette than photo, the one I took last week of my pure-black senior cat, Pippa. She is on a windowsill in the guest bedroom, looking at a quilted cat given to us many years ago. The backside is white, and we’ve always kept it in a window, and often someone would say, “We drove by your place and saw your white cat Barney in the window.” When Pippa stretches on the floor in the sun, one notices many undertones of brown in her black fur. Hairdressers, take note.

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As I write this, my cat Luna is acting like a vulture, sitting on the top of my chair behind my head, looking over my shoulder, waiting for me to put my computer aside. It used to be that she waited semi-patiently, then curled up on my lap; however, the last few weeks, she has waited for another reason, a smarter reason.