layla: grass at sunset (Default)
Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2007-07-27 11:54 pm

Meece!

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.