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[mamculuna]

Last night I was walking from my yoga class back to my son's house in Berkeley. When I turned the corner to his street (kind of hillish, but definitely still in the middle of town, with many houses and even small apt. complexes) I saw what I thought was a very big dog nosing at a garbage can. Surprised to see an unleashed dog in this very conscientious town, I looked a little closer. It turned out to have horns--sure enough, a deer, standing on the sidewalk. He saw me and was totally confused, with a parked car on one side, a wall on the other, and me getting closer. You could see his brain working--"Run this way! No,that way! No, help, I'm trapped!" I took pity and walked out in the street and made a wide circle around him--but apparently it still never occurred to him to run back up the other direction into the hills he came from.

Also, I had acupuncture for the first time yesterday--mostly just to see what it's like, since my son is studying to become an acupuncturist, but also for a sore place in my back. This particular guy used electricity on the needles, which was weird. But I sure felt fine afterwards.

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[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

It's always strange to see wildlife mingling with the SUVs in the city! I was driving to work the other morning, and thought oooh, that's a big cat..nope, racoon. Another time I was driving along one of the streets near my place, and I saw a very scruffy, scrawny dog walking across a main street...Oh. It's a coyote!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

And the ubiquitous possums. But at home I'm too far into the city for deer. And haven't yet seen a coyote, though I'm pretty sure they're up in the mountains in SC, at least.