Blackcaps!

(Photography by hmmooreniver)

Mowed and trimmed for hours today and am I bushed! Utterly! Also took berries and squash to our neighbors. Now I am relaxing briefly on the back porch enjoying the day and the subtle aroma of . . . SKUNK! Max seems to have a bit of that odor as well and refuses to venture out the door today! We haven't seen a skunk around here in years!

Last night my beloved found two more fresh examples of scat, different this time. (Last week I found some which belonged to a Cougar or E. Mountain Lion, it seems.). He also noted a large trampled swatch from the north edge of our lawn into the weeds and orchard on our neighbor's property directly opposite our fruit trees on the back lawn. Then when I was mowing, I found another trampled swath back by the cemetery and more scat on the path! Looks like our visitor enjoys blackcaps . . .

I haven't picked any wild ones as they are entwined with poison ivy.

A bear has passed through just about this time now for the last three years. I am glad he is a "transient"!