Scat!

Let me begin by noting that almost all my walking is on private gravel roads, and I generally stay on the roadway—especially during the summer—to avoid being attacked by brambles, poison ivy, and/or stinging insects. I usually begin my ramble by walking up a short stretch of my neighbor’s very steep concrete driveway with Jet to near the top of the ridge, continuing down a gravel road that intersects with “my” road below my meadow, then back up my shared driveway. (We call this the loop.) I leave Jet at the house, then walk down to the river and back and wherever else the spirit moves me. Often I walk back to the top and then over the ridge (more on this in another post).

Today I found this bear scat in the road at the top of the ridge. I didn’t examine the scat closely, but it looks like it had been eating persimmons, although I haven’t noticed any ripe ones yet.

I noticed the triplet fawns, their mom, another doe, and several turkeys in my meadow a little while ago and took this photo from my deck. You can try to spot them below!

I think I have figured out how to have these blog posts upload to Facebook automatically and will soon find out.