Alviiin our backyard Eastern Striped Chipmunk. Standing up on his hind legs at the base of our cellar doors, then looking at me then looking toward the salt marshes, then scoot,hop skipping merrily away on his day!
A New E.T. Spotted in Westbrook???
My husband found this animal creature near our squash plants and he called me over in earnest saying “you gotta see this”!
So I left the clothes a hanging on the clothesline and made a bee line over. I could not believe what I was seeing it’s color was beautiful almost the color of the yellow neck squash flower. It moved so quickly and aggressively it didn’t appear to be a caterpillar. So I ran in an got the old Olympus. In the meanwhile my husband put the “thin
Thunder so hard it makes the ground shake!
deep and low the thunder crows
tremendous cracks and roars
closer it comes turning the morning sky into night
downpour of rain
shading in gray
stops the rain and quiet for a while
then a crack of thunder that seems to start in NY
and branch over me like a large maples sprawling roots
all the way to Boston!
grumbling, rumbling grumbling. . . . . hungry for his breakfast
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