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DougT's avatar

Clint, I'm in a very green leafy part of the city and I get squirrels (the 🇺🇸 gray variety) dashing everywhere several generations are now at home in the tree Scape around my development. A near neighbours kitty has had her first litter of babies (NO I am not adopting one) the kitty mother comes and sits on my patio frame and glowers at me but she gets no luck from me 😎 Last couple years there has been wild foxes making a home in the undergrowth of the development, I have spotted a couple of this years Fox cubs already. I am surrounded by trees/shrubbery the bird population is ever expanding and we occasionally get Ring Necked Parakeets refuelling on the shrub berries. There was a dead rat near the shrubbery but I left it as I knew the 🦊would dispose of it, which it has 😲 My development is on the land of 2 demolished Victorian Villas from around 1870's and a lot of the majestic trees are from the time the Villas were built. As they make up a barrier to the main roadway they are carefully monitored by arborist for their tree health. The downside is they are deciduous 🌳 and Autumn leaf drop is horrendous 😲 Enough now I will be boring the pants off everyone. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴 🇬🇧

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Love Walt Whitman . I think of how fearless he was to live out loud at a time when it was against the law to be who you really were. I can remember when I was learning what it meant to be a homosexual. It was still against the law to be gay, I think it was taken off the law books in the 1970s,we must not become numb to the freedoms we enjoy today, but be willing to defend the rights that others have afforded us. God bless you. Thanks for the work you do.

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