Sunday, November 21, 2010

Marking Territory

Mrrrrr Friends,

Okay, I share my world with other critters. I accept this. Indeed, I celebrate it. But I have one caveat...I want them to know I am here.

This is a fundamental premise for most of us critters. For me, it translates to marking my world - an intricate, loving, labor intensive process that must be pursued every day if I'm going to keep up with the fishers, turkeys, bobcats, possums, other cat dudes, foxes, minks that share my space...and the ever present domestic canines that, quite frankly, I could do without messing in my yard.

So I mark the tame spots in my yard and Aunt Becky's yard (at this time of year Brewster and Ubu are simply not getting their work done).

And I mark in the wild spots.

Which requires boulder scaling.

And there are occasional surprises.

Marking leaves is fun.

But will lead to antics.

Life is good! How do you mark your territory?