Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Country Commute

I have lived in Cornucopia for almost eleven years now. Friends and family still ask me if I get sick of driving all over for work or to different events for our kids. If any of them could just take a week to travel with me, they would understand that what I encounter on my drives is nothing like the traffic endured by living in a city.
Last Tuesday on my way into the office, I had the opportunity to stop and meet a great gray owl through the lens of my camera. What an amazing creature. Great Grays are so huge when you see them from 20 feet away with their yellow eyes piercing into your own.
Yesterday on our way to soccer registration and Kindermusik, my sons and I saw a bobcat eating on a road killed deer. Unfortunately, we only caught a quick glimpse as it dashed away from the kill and into the woods.
Maybe some folks don't mind looking at bumper to bumper traffic on their way to work. As for me, I will take the wildlife.

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