View from the kitchen

[heathrowga]

I'm sitting at the kitchen table with the window open to the backyard so I can enjoy the birds chirping. (We have a pair of cardinals that are beebopping around the back porch.)  All of the sudden, they take off.

I hear something moving through the leaves on the ground. I assume it's a rabbit or a chipmunk. No, it's another coyote. This one is a beautiful grey with a lighter face. (The previous coyote from a couple of months ago was grey and orange.)  He's just following the creek bed, sniffing for food and taking a small drink.

Sabine (the fuzzball in my icon) is sitting on the windowsill. She fluffs up her fur to make herself look big and fierce.  I shush her to stop growling.  A minute or so later, the coyote moves out of our yard and down the creek.

I'm thankful the kids are still napping, so I could enjoy this moment.

Comments

[knobody.livejournal.com]

sounds like a wonderful, peaceful moment.

but *snickering* at the thought of the cat in your icon, shave and all, trying to puff herself up to look big :).

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

She's got most of her fur back, so she's just fuzzy. :) However, she's so domesticated, it's not even funny.

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

I'd be a bit scared if I was outside rather than in my house. However, I'm always pleased when I see an extra bit of nature. :)

[lorigami.livejournal.com]

agreed =)

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

I love those moments. They are even better with a calm kid. Their sense of wonder rubs off on you.

[xavi7734.livejournal.com]

Wow, I bet that was amazing.

[gulfsidebo.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Hopefully you don't get one of those hairless ones like they've been seeing in Texas...the goat suckers.

[froglettewriter.livejournal.com]

this is sooo enspiring, i can feel the energy you were enjoying in the moment, i so get this. :)

what's sooo cool is i was writing yesterday with my character walking thru the woods w/ one of her "instructors" and he was trying to convey to her the larger creatures from his mountain as she was telling him to beware of the large toothed reptiles near the river delta.