June 8, 2006

• Unexpected sighting

  I still have a dozen or more private entries that I need to get around to finishing and making public, but I want to show you something that I saw last night.

  
  

  I live in a fairly urban area, with tons of development around me.  My condo is literally 30 yards from the Dulles Toll Road, a major road with constant traffic.  I can look out my window and see the road, and I doubt if there is ever more than 30 seconds without at least one car driving by at 60+ mph.  I'm rambling a bit, but the point is, I don't live in the country.  There are deer not too far away, but rarely do you see anything more exotic than that.  In fact, I only remember 2 instances of personally seeing something "cool".

  
  

  I'll tell the bear story another day, but.....wait a second.  I guess I didn't "personally see" the bear, but it was in my back yard.  So anyway, last night, I saw the below.

  
  

   

  
  

  A grey fox was in my neighborhood, walking right by my car.  I didn't even know that we had grey foxes in Virginia.  You see the red foxes once in awhile, sadly, usually squashed on the road, but I've never seen a grey fox before.  It took me a few seconds to figure out what it was.

  
  

  Coincidentally, 60 minutes earlier my roommate had told a story involving a fox, http://eflclub.com/3stories/fairystories/foxcrow.html , and even stranger, at the time that I saw the fox last night, I was walking a certain Ms. Fox to her car.

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