Our latest raccoon visitor is a young-ish female we’re calling BT, short for Bent Tail. You might not notice from this photo but the last few inches of her tail is permanently bent downward, probably from an early injury. She has a chewed up ear but we already have a couple of raccoon visitors with chewed up ears. This one’s tail is different as well.
She’s shy, as all good raccoons need to be around here, and we don’t intentionally feed her. Because she comes during daylight hours, we figure she’s the one who learned where the food was earlier this summer from Peek-n-Thru or Rose Ears; neither of whom has been seen for months. It’s been an exceptionally quiet raccoon summer.
Wally visits often. Thankfully, he doesn’t often sit at the back door like he was here, looking for company or a hand-out or maybe a brushing. Wally does love brushings. Maybe he was looking to see who might want to come out to play. We don’t think he had Dad in mind.
Neighbor cat P/B, who doesn’t like Wally (and the feeling is mutual), enjoys rolling around in our tired bark mulched flower bed. She’s a good garden cat.
Out back, most of the spring/summer flowers are finished for the year. Here, one daylily threw up a late, lone stalk of buds maybe just so this little katydid could enjoy a couple of last blooms.
Every once in a while, conditions are just right for baby ferns to sprout up all over. While it hasn’t been a wet summer, it wasn’t terribly broiling hot either. The tomato plants weren’t enthused about the lack of heat. Then again, we had an inkling it wouldn’t be a tomato-growing kind of year. We stuck to growing simple cherry tomatoes and have harvested, maybe, 25 tomatoes total.
