Monday, May 17, 2010

Wild, Wild Life

Right before 8:00 PM last night, I saw a deer trotting through the front yards of the houses across the street. I'm not sure where it was coming from or going to, but it disappeared between some bushes and into a backyard. I thought I might have imagined it since I had recently woken up from a nap so I called my mom. I wanted someone else to know.

Then, this morning I was taking my garbage to the curb around 6:45 AM, and I saw an opossum running from my yard toward the house across the street. It ran past the neighbor's trash pile and into the flower beds near their house. I think it headed for the rear of the house after that. I dropped my bag on the tree lawn and got back inside as soon as I could. That critter's tail creeped me out!

I've seen squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, raccoons and various birds in the neighborhood but never deer or opossums before this.