REFUGE/DDWS

We islanders may be heard whining about our “cold spell” of late, but Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling reminds us — in his timeless, tongue-in-cheek manner — that others have it worse. We send warm thoughts to our friends up north as snow and cold cause true hardships. Our namesake Darling, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his witty and sometimes scathing editorial cartoons in the Des Moines Register, created this cartoon during his 50-year career in the early 1900s. The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge owns the copyright of the “Ding” Darling cartoons.