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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Fox



All of my life, I've loved these animals. There's something both awful and lovely about them. Or lovely about how they inspire awe, or awe-ful about how much I love them, or lovely about how they fill me with awe, or awe-inspiring about how lovely they are or . . . .

Well, foxes and ravens, I guess I'm just and old Wiccan stereotype.

There's a fox who lives on the hill just behind my yard, in an old woody thicket up there. I'm deeply in love and in awe of her. She came out into the yard early this morning, during a short break in our heavy rains, sniffed the space around my altar and my fire pit, turned, looked for the longest time at me standing, coffee mug in hand, on the screen porch, and then decided, I surmise: "Neither food nor foe." I keep thinking about putting out dogfood in the Winter, but I bet a naturalist would tell me it's a bad idea. But, if birdseed is good . . . .

2 comments:

Vivienne Grainger said...

How very lovely. The yard, the foxes, the snow, all of it.

Foxes have recently showed up in my life, so of course I've promptly bookmarked the video!

nanoboy said...

That's the rub, though. Birdseed isn't all that good, ecologically speaking. I suppose there is a case that it makes up for anthropogenic habitat disruptions, but that would be pretty inexact.