Wildflowers, Wild Animals, and ...
“I’m not a Buddhist or anything but I do have great respect for all living creatures,” my neighbor Christine Chesire explained after saying she’d recently freed a wasp that was trapped between the window pane and the screen in her apartment window. Saving “critters” of all varieties is something my pert 40ish neighbor has been doing all her life. I first realized it the day I saw her in the backyard of our apartment complex, banging a couple of old saucepans together and wildly waving her arms upward. Turns out she wasn’t practicing to be a cymbalist in an old-fashioned Salvation Army band. She was merely scaring away a huge hawk that had been ogling our backyard squirrels with an obvious yen for a small four-legged breakfast in mind. Since the backyard is fairly ...