Just a Quick Flash.....

When we lived in Bayview we shared the neighborhood with several red foxes. One walked through our back yard as I sat on the patio reading a book. One sat on the porch beneath our mailbox for a moment.....surveying our front yard. Once, on the way to work, I slowed and stop to allow a mother fox and her three kits to cross the road in front of me. Once, walking toward the lake a fox paced out of an alleyway, glanced at me and, in no particular hurry, continued on his way.

Someone told me there was a fox den at the north end of "our" bike path here in Port....across from the community garden. But I've never seen it.

Then there was today.....our 9:00 a.m. walk so Fenway could do "his business". Going along the bike path we always spot squirrels and lots of birds. Often we find rabbits and deer peering out of the brush, or crossing the path ahead of us. It's one of the reasons this is my favorite walk. Within a few minutes of the condo building I feel like we are miles away from any civilization and nature presents me with surprises.

Today, moving out of the brush on the left side of the path and scampering straight north in front of me was a beautiful red fox. An adult.....moving quickly and disappearing around a curve. I walked as fast as possible....but rounding that same curve the fox was nowhere to be seen. I looked left and right as we continued along....down at the stream, up the hill. But he/she could have been anywhere.

But what fun....Fenway and I saw a fox. Wish I'd had my camera and had been quick enough to capture the disappearing tale.....a free photo from the internet will have to do. For now......