I was born & raised in Chicago. Within the city limits of Chicago. Many people say they're from Chicago, but when I ask "where" specifically, it turns out to be a suburb. Yeah, I was a City Girl. Thankfully, when I grew up in the 1950s, we took trips out of town, and I got to know the countryside, farms, lakes, and fishing. So, I guess you could say I was a City Girl with a bit of a "country heart." I used to say I wanted to live on a farm, or in a castle.
In 1975 I moved to Sacramento California, and in the early 1990s I moved to the small town of Loomis. That was my first experience living in the country. We had sheep, chickens, Guinea fowl, turtles, migrant ducks, geese, herons, egrets, night visits from bear, raccoons, possum, skunks, bob cats and the usual snakes, lizards and various song birds and birds of prey. We had an abundance of wild life.
I now live in the Shenandoah Valley of the State of Virginia. It is SPECTACULAR! The wildlife is different from that in CA, but much of it's the same,and I think we have even more here than we did in CA. I had a lot of material for short stories while living in CA, and I'm adding to that here in VA. I take a lot of photos and some videos. I just tried to up load a video of just some of what I see here, but it's too large. I'll work on getting that here in a different way or by shrinking the file. More later.
Aha! I was able to edit the video and upload it a few days later. The video shows different critters on the ground under the bird feeder.
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