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Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Fox kit hangout, Home Farm, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, June 11, 2009
Fox kit hangout, Home Farm, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, June 11, 2009

Raising street smart kits

If you want street smart kits raise them on the street. A family of red foxes has been doing just that for several years now, a couple hundred feet down Clark Road from the house. This young guy has gotten to the point where he will alertly stand his ground as a car passes. Their den is at the base of an old tree a few feet off the road to the right. This kit and his sibling across the road are sitting above an old dry culvert where he can take refuge in an emergency.

Night camp

On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Was Love Then

Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought calm and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx paperback pg 315

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