“Over in the meadow by the old bee hive

Lived an old mother fox

And her little foxes five”

We have five kits growing up here

Leaping and running with a jump

While the mother fox sits watching us…..but

Mr Banks is under surveillance- now

After he took off after fox

Full speed down the driveway- I followed

Even running up a hill across the road

Thankfully when he stopped and fox sat

With such motherly understanding-

One mother to another

I thanked her for her kindness- her patience.

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My friends’s macho cat-

Who knew himself to be the biggest cat in town

Didn’t run from the mountain lion that ate him

He met his fate – it was his choice.

( captured was on a nature cam)

Mothering is a fierce activity- containing the whole of life and death

A kiss on both cheeks.