Looking over our most recent additions to the garden this
morning—butterfly milkweed, heliotrope, dragon’s blood clover, and African daisies—I heard what I thought was a cat padding through the grass. I was kneeling down
and the animal was so close it brushed past my sweater. The encounter was only
a couple of heartbeats. Time enough for my brain to register though that it was
not a large ginger cat, but a fox. The
same radiant fox that pranced past my car earlier this week when I was backing
into my driveway.
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| Illustration: David Lupton |
I am in awe of this creature. It’s agile, graceful, and
seems playful (naïve though I am, it might have been stalking me and at the
last moment decided that I was too big to eat!). Nonetheless, it is quite
something to have a wild animal approach so closely of its own freewill. Pure magic!
To continue the theme of red (passion), we also have multiple
cardinal pairs nesting in the neighbourhood. I’ve become accustomed to their
calls and am often rewarded with flashes of crimson soaring by when I look up after
hearing a distinctive chirp.
There’s been a lot of rain this spring, hence a lot of
complaining. But I love the freshness that the rain brings. The delicate smell
of peonies, lilacs, and mock orange blossoms carries freely on the clean air. Soft
sounds of wind chimes, nesting birds, and leaves dancing in the wind soothe and
calm. Peace is in the air.
~ May the magic that
is always present invigorate and enliven you. With warm thoughts for your
health and happiness, Holly x ~