Our visitor

Being on the edge of the wilderness here in Tucson, we see all sorts of wildlife right in our backyard. We usually have three or four bunnies sprawled out on our grass, lizards of varying sizes and colors perched on our fence, roadrunners darting through our yard. We hear Coyotes at night, and recently saw them and Javalina - wild, onery, skunk-pigs - in our neighborhood.

One morning Mike had just left to work when he called me from his cell phone. There was a bobcat walking up the street. He followed the animal through our neighborhood. I was really curious, and whether or not it was a good idea, I came outside to see it. I watched it walk across our neighbors front patio, and when it got to our house, it jumped the fence into our backyard. It walked a few feet from our backdoor and then over our fence into our neighbors backyard. Aw, life in the desert!