#scattered bones

lol Alisha knew it was Rose under the mask lol

never underestimate Alisha

“A murderer and her fake family….it makes me sick”

Cougar Spring, Elk Ridge, California.

Why I help-out spiders that trap themselves in the sink rather than just squashing them. Elk Ridge, California. Getting out of bed and looking out the window, in the early light I saw a mountain lion sauntering up the stream outside my front door…. thirty feet away. Dull, dark tan, the color of dry leaves, with accents of black on the tail and face and paws. Stocky, powerful, and, even though the ground was covered with dry leaves, absolutely quiet. He followed the stream up hill, and hopped about six feet up onto a large fir log that lay in the stream bed, and walked up that, past the spring. “Hopped” isn’t the word… compared to that movement, which betrayed no effort or wasted gesture, there are no human athletes. (This is why I call my place 'Cougar Spring') I went out on the deck for a better view and caught sight of him on a trail further up the hillside. Imagine my surprise to see a second lion following the first! One had passed my door unseen. And, about twenty seconds later, a third mountain lion followed the first two, perhaps a yearling. How often do these big cats pass by my door without my noticing? It would be so easy for one to reduce me to scattered bones. Downstairs, I found a spider trapped in the sink, the sides being too slick for it to escape. Noticing my greater feeling for its endangered situation, I carefully helped it outside. It is not our keen brains or our piles of fine and interesting stuff that make us Human, it is our humility. People esteem famous accomplishments, but it is our simple human acts that really mean something. Behind sunlit leaves The flutter Of unseen wings