Written for RDP, where segoil asks us
to get creative with the word “foliage”.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s where the prompt took me.
The weather here in our part of New York State (Southern Westchester County) has been most favorable, with new growth every day.
We discovered a family of groundhogs happily chomping on the new foliage in our backyard. This photo shows one of the groundhog babies we call George. There’s one more baby groundhog who was not available for yesterday’s photo shoot; her name is Gracie.
Caught here mid-nap is baby deer Deirdra.
Yes, we get attached to our backyard guests!
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How lovely!
Very few creatures attempt the long climb up the 60 concrete steps to my appartment, although a few summers ago there was a fox that used appear at my door and even enter it when left open! We became quite good friends.
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You have cute guests.
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I remember feeding all of the animals that came into my backyard in New Jersey, but I never named any of them and I think it is cool that you did that, Nancy.
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George and Gracie–so cute! The most wild we get is the owls and hawks that frequent the trees across the street. Once we had a fox in the woods. Made the front page of the local paper!
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