night creatures

tonight, about 9:00, i dropped my friend off at home and drove around for a bit.

well, directly across the street from the house i grew up in, i saw a huge owl. i saw him in the distance flutter across the road and land on the raised ground on the other side of the ditch, and when i moved close, i watched it for prolly almost a minute. and the song that was on my stereo? a gersh song that has the lines "who's my father, theres no other, who's my maker, Your my creator" (prolly not exactly right, i'm going from memory here!)... with the emphasis on the WHO's. anyways, the owl was beautiful, prolly standing 18" high, maybe more, and really big and round. just beautiful.

so anyways, i drove around a bit more, and on the street before i turn onto my street, i saw something dash across the road, with a big bushy tail with a bright white end... it was a fox! definately a fox, tho i've never seen what looked like a 'black and white' fox before! (but the light was definately bad, so it could really have been any combination of dark and white.) it looked at me for a few seconds, it's eyes catching the light, then it disappeared into the darkness. how cool was that!?!

i was thinking, hmm, a fox and an owl, i wonder if there's some story about owls and foxes... but i think i was thinking about 'the owl and the pussycat' maybe.

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so i just googled 'fox owl' and came up with a page that has a folktale from romania called "the seven-witted fox and the one-witted owl".... there's also a string game called "the owl and the fox".... a cute painting with the text "fox & owl extract" on it.... and a poem called "the owl and the fox".... neat~!

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nest (ack! i got birds on the brain! i meant to say...) NEXT, i googled for images. the owl looked pretty much identical to this one (they call it a goldeneye owl, but i think it's a great grey - i can't find anything on a goldeneye owl anywhere else!).... it also looked a lot like this great grey owl....and this great grey.... i think it was a great grey, lol....

and the fox? whoa, it sure wasn't in amongst all those red foxes, then i came across a picture that looks exactly like the one i saw, this little gal named devon, a 'silver-phase' red fox, who apparantly hangs out with a bunch of wolves!?!... and this cross-phase red fox.... and here's a red fox that's totally black! evidently they go through different color phases.

i'm interested about the red fox's color phases.... but not enough to google any more tonight. i'm not so much a ... what do you call those animal scientists? something more specific than biologist, lol... but not marine-biologist, as these are not aquatic animals! i can't even think of a word, that's how sleepy i am right now. i'm going to bed soon. soon! i mean it, tonight! i got church in the morning!