Category: Animals

I’m seeing things.

And now I think I’ve seen everything.

They’re everywhere I drive these days. Some look before they pop out from bushes and cross the road. Others don’t. If you’re a local, keep a keen eye out.

I pulled over next to a small pasture to take a photo. There was a horse grazing in the distance. Then movement caught my eye as the horse quickly trotted over to the fence next to me. Clearly, the sweet guy likes people and is probably rewarded with carrots and such. I was clean out of produce. I apologized but I don’t think he forgave me.

We don’t have a lot of fences in our neighborhood. As a result, we often have deer in our yard and this time of year we seem to have lots of them. The young ones, especially, haven’t figured out what they’re not supposed to eat according to the “Sunset Garden Book.” This year one or more of them decided that nasturtiums qualified as a good meal and mowed through a good third of mine. That’s a first. I think I know which one it is. I shoo’d it away just as it was about to sample my iris, another plant that’s supposed to be deer resistant.

These little guys are more common around here this time of year. I think it is a Washington green treefrog. It’s not much bigger than a walnut. I’m not usually drawn to green animals but this one seems pretty cute to me.