Wild Life

Hello,

While in DC we saw some unexpected wild life. The people looked quite normal, but there was the paper wasp nest on the way to the girl’s school. I will attach some pictures of that great wasp home. Lexi spotted it first high up in a leafless tree. I have not seen one of them in a natural setting in many years. If the nest had been lower I might have been tempted to see if the owners wanted us to cut it out. It was quite fascinating. It is interesting too that at the library we looked for some information about these wasps and found very little. The honeybees seem to get all of the press in the bee/wasp children’s book world.

We also saw a black squirrel darting up one side of the tree trunk and down another. Both Leroy and I remembered when he was going to the seminary and a white or albino squirrel lived in our yard.

Later, on a car trip to the store, we saw a red fox run into the woods. That was just a few trees grouped together. We did not get to look long at this moving object.

Still later we saw a deer as we were driving through a park. So you see there is wild life in the city if your eyes are open.

I do enjoy the walk to the school as we get to see leaves, trees, grass, dogs, people and the occasional bird. We both noticed how many leaves were still on the trees and that some of them were still green. Quite different from the view out our window where bare trees reign.

Paula