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A most welcome visitor.

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Looking out the kitchen window while doing dishes last week… I saw an owl.

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We hardly ever spot them so I was tickled to get a photograph, even if it was only of his back.

Then… about 10 minutes later?

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There he was!

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A beautiful barred owl perched on our back deck railing.

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Sitting pretty and letting me snap some much better pics.

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He didn’t even mind the deer showing up for dinner.

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My husband and I were like little kids at the zoo and clicked photos like mad.

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He was so beautiful!

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❤️🩷❤️

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Winter critters and wet paws.

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Percy the opossum has become a daily visitor, cleaning up spilled seed under the bird feeders.

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We also caught him on the kitchen landing during a snow dusting.

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The garage door was open…

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But he headed for the barn instead.

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Mrs. Cardinal in the garage gutter.

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Our buck still hasn’t lost his rack…

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Which makes me wonder if he ever will.

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Strolls with Lord Dudley Mountcatten are severely short in the winter.

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As His Royal Highness does not enjoy the cold, wind, snow….

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Or having wet feet.

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Deer, heading back to the woods.

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Let’s talk opossum.

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The snow is getting deeper but our lone little opossum is still visiting.

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When he gets scared or spots us in the window he runs for the woodshed.

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Climbing what must look like Mount Everest to a marsupial.

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He prefers melting snow that reveals grass and a few puddles from which to drink.

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Yes, they’re good to have around.

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And though they’re pretty humble looking creatures…

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We like Percy and wish him the best.

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Deer. And yes, more deer…

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We have a herd every night.

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And they’re always a joy to watch.

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The clunk that makes them scatter in this video was a male cardinal slamming into the glass on our kitchen porch.

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Thankfully he was just dazed and flew off shortly after.

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The harem master.

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Dusted with snow during a storm.

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Sadly the little plum tree we planted two years ago is tasty.

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And loses a lot of lower branches in the winter.

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Smile, and the world smiles with you.

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Our snow melted for a while this month and it made a nice background for portraits of our resident buck.

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He’s a big fella with a nice size and shape.

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Though his rack is a little squirrelly.

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It’s hard to tell if he’s an 8 or 9 pointer as his angles are all over the place.

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But I love his little white striped feet.

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And his smile of course.

We can all use more of those these days.

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Sleeping cats, roach clips and opossums.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten can sleep anywhere at anytime.

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Even sitting up straight in the sun.

He really was sound asleep and tumbled onto the couch shortly after the picture was taken… losing all that hard won feline dignity in the process.

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As promised –

This isn’t the actual feathered roach clip photo I’d been searching for, but it’s from the same Halloween party circa 1981. By the time this was taken I’d lost the headband and tomahawk, but the clips are still there.

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We have one little visiting opossum.

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It’s so cold, and his fur is just thin hairs.

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I never understand how they can survive Maine winters, but they do.

And speaking of winter…

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This is our immediate future.

With the local news using some pretty technical meteorological terms…

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Major fluff!

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