Charlie Chases a Coon
Jennifer snapped this photo of the raccoon on our front porch yesterday. I have spotted three raccoons on my property this year. That is a rare thing. I can count on one hand the number of raccoons (hither called coons) Jennifer and I have seen at all on our land and it has been several years since I saw the last one. Earlier this spring I caught a glimpse of one scurrying into the privet hedge. I wasn't sure it was a coon, it could have been a opossum or maybe a large cat. We have plenty of those. A couple of weeks ago I came face to face with another coon. I was walking the path down from the upper field, being quiet as usual on my walks, when a good-sized adult coon came running across our back yard near the woods and up the path toward me. The coon was occupied with something and did not see me immediately. I froze and watch it for maybe two seconds before it saw me. It stooped, looked at me for a moment, then quickly returned the way it came as I stood motio