Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
I don’t live here, but home is about more than where we reside. I’ve been visiting the Nature Center since I was a small child, and for me it’s as welcoming, comfortable, and restful as any place I know.
If, in the next life, I have the opportunity to choose where I can spend the time… I won’t hesitate to choose this place. Choosing who could join me and the animals there? Well, that would make it a true heavenly home.
The chipmunk? She does live here.
Well said!! It truly would make a heavenly home. And that is such a cute picture!!
February 11, 2013 at 6:06 am
Yes indeed, Sumithra!
February 12, 2013 at 10:45 am
Having grown up as a military brat, I did a lot of traveling and it almost feels that I do not have a “home.” With that said, I have lived in various places in Virginia for the largest portion of my life so I do call it home. The beautiful 16 acres of woods and fields where I live now and have lived since 1990 is my favorite of all as I love the peace and tranquility of this rural area and it is the place I have lived the longest – WOW – going on 23 years! That is over a fourth of my life.
February 11, 2013 at 10:51 am
Sixteen acres of woods and fields sounds very homey to me, Louis. Definitely.
February 12, 2013 at 10:46 am
I too love being out in nature. And yes indeed the chipmonk does live there. Nice home too.
February 11, 2013 at 12:45 pm
The chipmunks, the snakes, the birds, the deer, the fish, the dragonflies, the muskrats… a very nice home with wonderful neighbors!
February 12, 2013 at 10:49 am
I LOVE chipmunks!
February 11, 2013 at 3:32 pm
They are kind of hard to resist…
February 12, 2013 at 10:49 am
So cute!
February 11, 2013 at 5:12 pm
I’ll pass that message on to them, Amanda…
February 12, 2013 at 10:49 am
What a sweet little chipmunk! They are such a delight to watch. I can spend hours here watching the squirrels. And of course you know you’ll find me in nature… even in the next life!
February 11, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Not surprised there, Lori! I’m with you about the squirrels, even if their antics here usually involve the bird feeders…
February 12, 2013 at 10:50 am
I LOVE chipmunks..and squirrels. So cute.
February 11, 2013 at 10:28 pm
I used to feed baby squirrels at a rehabilitator’s – you want to talk about cute, they were cute overload.
February 12, 2013 at 10:52 am
I heart chipmunks. They’re so adorable and tiny. I love when they come sit on my hand to eat
February 12, 2013 at 12:43 am
That takes a special kind of person for them to eat on your hand, I say. Think they could see/feel that trait in you, somehow? Wouldn’t surprise me.
February 12, 2013 at 10:54 am
I think so. I mean, they can smell or sense threat, right? So I think they can also sense lack of threat or friendliness. I don’t know. I seem to do well with animals. They seem to trust me. I’ve even had a groundhog eating from my hand
February 12, 2013 at 12:38 pm
I’d love to play with that chipmunk! It would be so much fun
February 12, 2013 at 12:58 am
Oh, I just bet you would, Satchie! You and me both.
February 12, 2013 at 10:57 am
I had forgotten all about my chipmunk story. We HAD a colony of those playful little critters at my mountain cabin years ago before we started taking Mike the cat up there. Mike liked them too – unfortunately so much that we no longer have any. So, learn something from this folks – DO NOT take your cat to where your chipmunks are or they won’t be there very long.
February 12, 2013 at 10:45 am
Instinct is hard to overcome. At least Mike was happy about the arrangement, eh?
February 12, 2013 at 10:59 am