small animals in the forest.

I wrote yesterday about birds and how I wonder about them. The things I would love to see the most are things in nature. I've been blind since birth so don't pine away for what I've never seen. Being blind is normal and natural and seeing would be scary and overwhelming in that I wouldn't know what anything was. I wouldn't know how to read or write, what colours were or anything. But, I am curious about things. Especially nature. Sunrises and sunsets, birds, mountains, and animals. One time I was listening to a chip munk in the woods beside us. My friend told me what it was. It made a lot of noise rattling in the dry leaves so I asked if it was about the size of a cat. They said it was much smaller. Writing about birds yesterday also caused me to wonder about animals. Common ones, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, raccoons, and those types of animals. What they are like, how they move and so on. I also wonder about huge animals I will never touch like lions or tigers or bears! Not that I want to touch them but I wonder about them too.

Great things about being blind. The animals in the forest.

I went with some of my family last night to the cottage where I spent my summers all through my childhood. Being there is wonderful and peaceful and brings back great memories. This morning, as my guide dog and I sat out on the deck quite early, I heard a rustling noise in the forest. It sounded like quite a big animal. a deer perhaps. They have been known to appear there quite recently. But no! When I asked if anyone saw anything, they saw a tiny chipmunk. Now the chipmunk has a tiny little voice and is small but its rustling sounded big. Perhaps these animals rustle themselves in the forest leaves to sound larger and more imposing than they are. This isn't the first time I've thought a squirrel or a rabit or chipmunk was something considerably larger. On another note, thanks all for the wonderful comments and blogs. Keep them coming. On the topic of blogs, I have two additional blogs besides this one. One is written by me about storytelling things. The other is written by my guide dog tulia from her point of view. Here are their links. Kim Kilpatrick's storytelling blog tulia the guide dog's blog