Edge City by Terry and Patty LaBan for October 14, 2022

YEP! And they wonder why wild animals are showing up in their back yards.

A patch of land about a half mile from our house was developed a few years ago

We did have a lot of displaced critters in the neighborhood for a while but they have mostly moved on

“Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."

i’d have to hug them all

A LOT of competition for the bird feeder. I notice the birds it was probably intended for are now where to be seen. Or, might that be a migrating flock in the sky?

There is a family of deer living on my property under the trees near the arroyo. They feast on the lilacs and the apricot trees, but for some reason they leave the spirea alone. They are beautiful, glad to have them as neighbors.

Deer. Large voracious rodents.

Progress has its downside!

Yeah, that’s the bad news.

The good news is that you know have a small piece of those woods in your backyard. So, you know, if you like enjoying nature…

The critters owned the land LONG before human invaded and took it over, And people wonder why critters are in their back yard? Wrong!! You are in THEIR back yard.

There’s an urban version. A friend of mine lived a few blocks away from an old abandoned factory. Then it was knocked down for redevelopment and all the nearby neighborhoods were suddenly swarming with rats.

You’re gonna have to move now.