Woodbridge Nature

Nature is resilient. It adapts. That's the main reason why environmental issues aren't at the forefront of my worries. Yes, we should be good stewards. But Nature rules its own sphere.

Over the years in Woodbridge, my local Detroit neighborhood, I've seen wildlife come back in abundance. I've observed pheasants, hawks, rabbit, beavers, and opossum. Feral cats are everywhere; there aren't near the rats there once were, and perhaps that's why. 

In the last year there have been two deer sighted, one right by the old barn. And this very day while on my morning constitutional, I saw a wild turkey. No, not an empty bottle of the famous rotgut. A wild turkey, with a baby in tow. 

Nature rebounds, it answers all challenges. My own Detroit environs prove it.

Weather irony

Dressing for my morning walk yesterday, I put on a fleece hoodie with my winter coat over top. Then I went outside where the sun wasn't quite up but there was significant morning twilight. I could see well, as well as see my breath. And I thought, it's interesting that on a May morning just before six, with a decent amount of daylight already, I'm dressed for winter. Yet there will be September mornings at about the same time where it will still be dark. But it will be warm, and I'll be in shorts and a tee shirt.

Isn't nature weird?