Moose sighting!
Apr. 23rd, 2005 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonOkay, I was going to stay away from the computer this weekend and focus on some of my many building and land-tending projects (work with the hands = good for the soul :>), but this is just too nifty not to briefly shout out about. We had a moose on our land today! Well, I'm reasonably sure from tracks and such that there have been other moose about, and I've seen them elsewhere, but this was the first time I've actually seen one myself here, on our land.
As I was enjoying an all-too-rare Good Long Read On The Comfy Couch in the moist, drippy Spring day today has turned out to be, Lovely Housemate![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lylythe_strega shouts out my name very excitedly from the plant humidifier (aka hot tub) in the greenhouse where she had been soaking. This could mean many things, and my first rather worried thought was that the hot tub had sprung a leak or some such, but when I jogged into the greenhouse, said Lovely Housemate was gesturing and pointing excitedly through the greenhouse windows towards the road up to the barn, where what looked like a decent sized young adult (2-3 yrs) doe moose was ambling casually along. I tried to get outside and take a picture, but by the time I got my shoes on and found and grabbed the camera, Ms. Moose had headed across the paddock past the maypole and fire circle and disappeared back into the woods. I went out to take a look, but it was at that point a missing moose (not a great idea to chase moose through the woods during rutting season anyhow...moose are what we technically refer to as Very Large Creatures).
The previous owners of the land we're on were here for 25+ years with only one brief moose sighting during that time, and that was up by the main road as they drove out. After the Work we've done here over the past two years, I feel like this is starting to become, a little bit at a time, an outpost of sorts. Not in the sense of a bastion of human civilization, or even a watch tower, intruding into the Wild -- rather, an outpost of the Wild into civilization, a tendril of mythago wood entering the realms of conscious thought. I'll hope that the moose is merely one of many creatures to feel welcome on this land -- certainly by tracks and sighting, we've got owls, hawks, herons, wild turkeys and grouse, deer, bear, fisher cats, coyotes or wild dogs, bobcat or lynx, fox and the usual assortment of small mammals. If I see a hart (I note that there is a rough forest track "road" near here called "Hartshorn Road"...) I'll try to get a picture ;>
As I was enjoying an all-too-rare Good Long Read On The Comfy Couch in the moist, drippy Spring day today has turned out to be, Lovely Housemate
lylythe_strega shouts out my name very excitedly from the plant humidifier (aka hot tub) in the greenhouse where she had been soaking. This could mean many things, and my first rather worried thought was that the hot tub had sprung a leak or some such, but when I jogged into the greenhouse, said Lovely Housemate was gesturing and pointing excitedly through the greenhouse windows towards the road up to the barn, where what looked like a decent sized young adult (2-3 yrs) doe moose was ambling casually along. I tried to get outside and take a picture, but by the time I got my shoes on and found and grabbed the camera, Ms. Moose had headed across the paddock past the maypole and fire circle and disappeared back into the woods. I went out to take a look, but it was at that point a missing moose (not a great idea to chase moose through the woods during rutting season anyhow...moose are what we technically refer to as Very Large Creatures).The previous owners of the land we're on were here for 25+ years with only one brief moose sighting during that time, and that was up by the main road as they drove out. After the Work we've done here over the past two years, I feel like this is starting to become, a little bit at a time, an outpost of sorts. Not in the sense of a bastion of human civilization, or even a watch tower, intruding into the Wild -- rather, an outpost of the Wild into civilization, a tendril of mythago wood entering the realms of conscious thought. I'll hope that the moose is merely one of many creatures to feel welcome on this land -- certainly by tracks and sighting, we've got owls, hawks, herons, wild turkeys and grouse, deer, bear, fisher cats, coyotes or wild dogs, bobcat or lynx, fox and the usual assortment of small mammals. If I see a hart (I note that there is a rough forest track "road" near here called "Hartshorn Road"...) I'll try to get a picture ;>
