Blue, Congratulations on your primal forest land purchase; hope you also bought yourself a big Stetson (them who gots it should flaunt it on occasion!). I have a 50 x 100' lot in the suburbs (there are probably boulders on your property the same size) and it's small but seems mighty big sometimes in the summer when from some spots in the yard the neighbors can't be seen. It sure does warm my heart all year round to see that more small suburban critters such as birds, butterflies, squirrels, and bugs hang around here than anywhere else.
It's especially obvious when firefly season comes around. All my daughters neighborhood friends were jealous of her for it when she was little, wondered why it was so. I would tell them the reason - My grandparents bought this house brand new, many moons ago, and the legend of it has been handed from generation to generation by the critters who have placed their marks on its location, is why. No one kills 'em or swats 'em or steps on 'em or poisons 'em or bothers 'em, from the git-go, and they know it. Some butterflies come here who will light on our hand when called with one hand clapping.
I tamed their ancestors when I was a child; so we smell like family.
Plus there's always something around for them to eat - leaves or flowers or seeds or stale bread - and what a Bird Paradise with the prime unobstructed view of a McDonalds nearby from the roof - scouting for french fries and hamburger rinds tossed down is easy for them from here! Also plenty of perching places, hideyholes and brushy shelters; no squirrel guards on the birdseed feeders either. Let 'em all enjoy! Therefore, Blue, I can well imagine the magnitude of your joy knowing that from the small to the bigger rare free-ranging animals on your spread - which must be so unbelievably beautiful - all are now under your protection. If they don't know it already, they will after awhile. What a happy day indeed !
909 On The Land Too,
Joanie |
