Meece!

[layla]

So we're upstairs a few minutes ago -- me on the computer, Orion playing video games on the projector wall -- and I looked over the railing down to the picture window looking out at the backyard, and OMG MOOSE! A mama and a little calf, right outside the window, just fifteen or twenty feet from me.

By the time I finished flailing at Orion and we got our cameras and ourselves downstairs, the moose had moseyed a little ways farther on, but we still got to watch them grazing for a while and took some not-so-sharp pictures in the midnight semidarkness. (Yes, these pictures were taken at midnight, with natural lighting ... a month after the summer solstice. We are far north, we are.)






The above picture, enlarged to show the moose a bit better:


I think it's funny that as long as we've lived here, and as many moose as I've seen, it's still an OMG GRAB THE CAMERA! moment when one wanders by the window.

Comments

[pamola.livejournal.com]

And fine moose they are. I am always amazed at how spindly their legs are (from my stint as a camp conselor in Maine)

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

I know! And they have this weird way of walking -- it makes me think of show horses, almost; the way their legs kind of swing up and out, like they're very loosely hinged at the shoulders. (I think it's for walking through deep snow, but it looks cool.)

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

Haha! OMG MOOOOOOOSE!

I always stopped and took notice when we had deer grazing on our lawn. I remember once when I found a mother leering into our living room window. I just looked back, just a moment between us, she thought nothing much, and went back with her fawn grazing on the fallen apples from the nearby tree for a bit. It was odd because they really hadn't untl the year before even come into our one-acre yard except on the far edge near the woods. Frankly, I think they got a little too comfortable with people-- they didn't even give a second thought when they would saunter through the trees in front of our house and cross the road without pause-- and we had some huge pine trees that would have hidden them only some 6 feet from the road.

BTW, have an icon.

^_^

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Snagged and uploaded! Thanks! ^_^

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

Jeez, the most interesting thing we get in our yard is stray cats. *jealous*

And your OMG MOOSE! icon should really have slashes through the Os.