"How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods...
...and how many eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours. " --John Muir
So! It pays to think like a critter!
Yesterday I was sitting back in the woods. There is a huge tree about 100 yards or so into the tree line at the back of my property...it's a good 40 ft. tall...maybe more.
I sat there studying it. It has several large cavities in the massive trunk.
I thought to myself, "If I were a critter, this would be a great tree to make a home in."
As my eyes traveled on up the trunk toward the top, I suddenly spied a little masked face peering down at me.
NO WAY!!!
LOL....I immediately thought of this quote from Carl Spangler (Caddyshack): "My enemy, my foe, is an animal.
In order to conquer the animal.
I have to learn to think like an animal. And whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days!"
The other quote that came to mind were the immortal words of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I wont look any further than my own backyard."
I had been moping around the house, and lamenting the fact I hadn't been able to get to any of my favorite wildlife haunts....Peace Valley, the Pennypack Trust, Churchville........
I realized I have no reason to whine! Look at what I see right on my own property! All I have to do is get up off the couch, grab my camera and walk out the door!
I think it's a whole family of raccoons. I know there were at least 3 of them up there. I saw these two youngsters, and another tail sticking out of a different crevice.
Yeah, yeah.....I know I SAID that I preferred that the raccoons didn't hang around because they can become a bit pesky, and make a real mess with my trash....BUT the wildlife photographer in me hopes they'll stick around a give me more photo ops like this one!
"How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods...
...and how many eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours. " --John Muir
So! It pays to think like a critter!
Yesterday I was sitting back in the woods. There is a huge tree about 100 yards or so into the tree line at the back of my property...it's a good 40 ft. tall...maybe more.
I sat there studying it. It has several large cavities in the massive trunk.
I thought to myself, "If I were a critter, this would be a great tree to make a home in."
As my eyes traveled on up the trunk toward the top, I suddenly spied a little masked face peering down at me.
NO WAY!!!
LOL....I immediately thought of this quote from Carl Spangler (Caddyshack): "My enemy, my foe, is an animal.
In order to conquer the animal.
I have to learn to think like an animal. And whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days!"
The other quote that came to mind were the immortal words of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I wont look any further than my own backyard."
I had been moping around the house, and lamenting the fact I hadn't been able to get to any of my favorite wildlife haunts....Peace Valley, the Pennypack Trust, Churchville........
I realized I have no reason to whine! Look at what I see right on my own property! All I have to do is get up off the couch, grab my camera and walk out the door!
I think it's a whole family of raccoons. I know there were at least 3 of them up there. I saw these two youngsters, and another tail sticking out of a different crevice.
Yeah, yeah.....I know I SAID that I preferred that the raccoons didn't hang around because they can become a bit pesky, and make a real mess with my trash....BUT the wildlife photographer in me hopes they'll stick around a give me more photo ops like this one!