The winter forest can be eerily beautiful at times, and this morning, the light and ice and shadows captured that. It was well below zero, and you could almost feel it looking at the trees.

Library tour information. I’m doing a bunch of interviews for the library tour, which is drawing some local media, which is great. I’m also getting a lot of e-mail and questions about the tour, which I can’t answer individually. As E.B. White once wrote, please remember there are a lot of you and only one of me.

But  here is some information. Please check times with your local library as they change. I’ll be posting daily on the blog and Facebook about the tour and my whereabouts.

First events: Sunday, 2 p.m., the Pember Library, Granville, N.Y. Monday, 6:30 p.m., the Community Library, Cobleskill, N.Y.

Tuesday, the Scoville Library, Salibury, Conn. 7 p.m. Then onto Providence, Osterville, Mass., Scituate, Mass. and Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard.

I will not be bringing dogs. I’ve stopped bringing them to book events. It is distracting to me, the audience, and puts them in some uncomfortable situations. The focus will be on libraries, writing, humans and animals, and more libraries. I will talk about my work, about “Rose In A Storm” and anything anybody wants to ask me questions about. I see these stops as conversations, not lectures and I look forward to it.

I will sign anything people bring to me, including all of my books and people’s body parts. Maria is coming with me, and she will be sketching for her potholders and we will be selling signed photographic notecards to benefit farm aid and family farms, which, like libraries, seem to be left behind in a country that subsidizes banks, insurance companies and car companies, but not humans or their precious institutions.

Hope to see some of you there. If you have any questions, please contact the libraries. Thanks.