There's a Hare in Your Flowers

It's starting to feel fallish in the great outside. Frost has appeared in many parts of the state and the equinox lurks. I went to find some flowers before they disappear. These are in Como Park in the flower beds that are meant to attract butterflies. The fall seems to be a good time for flowers, although the flutterbyes were not around today.


I walked around to the far side of the garden and encountered this wild hare. He's a park hare, so wasn't easily startled so I was able to get three photos of his quivering nose. This is the best of them. He represents wildlife in St Paul. He has a cousin that lives in my back yard.


We chatted with the Kagami Sensei again this morning. Her jellyfish bite is healing up nicely. She reported that she spent last weekend camping out and participating in a Japanese "rave." She had a pretty good time, I guess. She also was able to view cormorant fishing - a Japanese fishing strategy that uses bird eating fish to catch the fish and then forces them to give them up after they have been swallowed. It's a tourist attraction for Gifu City. She's doing well.

I played a couple of sets of tennis with the geezers at Marie Park this evening. The long shadows of sunset come earlier and earlier. The failing light makes for interesting points. We'll be taking the games inside in the near future, I think. Tennis Dennis stopped by to chat with the other geezers. He has had his cataracts fixed, with some minor complications, but will be back to the tennis courts in a couple of weeks.