Injured early in life, this raccoon was adopted by a family with two dogs. Dogs and raccoon together–will that work? They won’t fight?
No, not here. They get along like best friends. They remind me of my iguana and his good friends, a dog and a cat. Animals can be broad-minded.
Here’s a hymn requested by Erlene–In His Time. I don’t know who’s singing it, but I couldn’t resist the flowers and the butterflies.
(Three deer in our parking lot today, a doe and two fawns. To me, a sign that God is nigh.)
My wife loves these “Ernie’s Cabin” videos. I picked this one because it has a luna moth–an animal I’ve never seen in person. And a tiger swallowtail, my favorite. But the star is the butterfly who simply refuses to get off the man’s hand.
Don’t look now, but winter’s coming and’ll get here soon. Don’t shut the door against its more charming aspects.
I can’t think of anything more beautiful than bright red cardinals in clean white snow. I could almost cry, seeing it: it’s that lovely.
Praise the Lord for His handiwork! Which tells us, again and again, that God is nigh. Always.
This doesn’t happen often, but it does happen occasionally–an eagle attempts to snatch a human child. Happily for the baby and his parents, he’s just a little too heavy for the eagle to bring back to its nest. That’s how these rare incidents usually turn out.
There’s some feeling out there that this video is a fake. But it’s a fact that large eagles sometimes attempt to prey on small children… So don’t leave your baby just sitting there if eagles are around.
Oh, what a Roman augur would have made of this incident!
Bear in mind that these are wild gorillas, not gorillas in a zoo; and the candid camera filming them is disguised as a baby gorilla so they won’t get shy and hide from it.
Here we have gorillas young and old vocalizing as they eat. Well, heck, most of us humans do that, too, don’t we? But are they really singing? They might be making table talk. Jungle gossip. Tarzan could tell you, “Don’t get them started!”
Linda loved these “Mr. Nature” posts, so here’s one for her. As you can see, the baby cardinal’s not in the nest, which means he can fly, sort of. But he still wants to be fed, and he’s keeping his mother quite busy.
This summer, the cardinals in our yard had a problem child who flew out of the nest–without a lot of experience to do it well–and landed in the overgrown jungle of our garden, where he peeped and peeped rather piteously. I wished I could do something to help, but thought it wiser not to intervene. The mother and father kept going back and forth, feeding and comforting the baby. They finally got his self-confidence back up to where it should be, and all three safely flew away.
God’s stuff…