Comments on Julie Zickefoose: The Shallow Moon

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2008-04-23T01:09:00.000-05:00

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I love the word mustelid. Its a good word. No sk...

2007-02-08T17:12:00.000-05:00

I love the word mustelid. Its a good word. No skunks over here, but we do have hedgehogs (not mustelids) and they're hibernating. All curled up in prickly balls underneath leaves and things.

We have roe deer here and in the snow and more commonly, soft mud, I point out the buck tracks to my kids who think I am some sort of wildlife guru for knowing about tracks and the difference between buck and doe prints.

Hi guys--from Pittsburgh, where I'm stealing someb...

2007-02-07T23:28:00.000-05:00

Hi guys--from Pittsburgh, where I'm stealing somebody's wireless. Thanks, Angel!
Doc, those are the largest pics Blogger will let me post.
Jess, good spot! Thanks! I'll look for it.
Keep sniffin' for skonks,

Julie

I love the moon photo; its recent gorgeousness has...

2007-02-07T17:38:00.000-05:00

I love the moon photo; its recent gorgeousness has made the brutal cold a bit more bearable. (Sort of.)

I meant to tell you that I picked up the "premier issue" of Nature's Garden (I think that was the name) magazine, published by Better Homes & Gardens. (If you see a magazine with a beautiful bluebird on the cover while you're in the checkout lane of your local grocery store, that's the one.) And lo and behold, the back of the magazine features some recommended reading--and your book was listed first! I found it very exciting.

I was guessing possum because of the drag marks......

2007-02-07T10:12:00.000-05:00

I was guessing possum because of the drag marks...thought maybe it was his tail. Smelling skunks is always an early promise that spring is coming.

Wonderful. Our skunks are actively lately too -- ...

2007-02-07T10:01:00.000-05:00

Wonderful. Our skunks are actively lately too -- I don't know if they hibernate here as we smell them all winter (particularly the winter that one got under our house and lived their all winter). But come this time of year . . . wow, they are out and about with a pungent enthusiasm.

Your picture of the pastel sky and trees was lovely -- and I appreiciate your questions -- we can all ponder them.

How about that, I got skunk very early in your des...

2007-02-07T08:40:00.000-05:00

How about that, I got skunk very early in your description. We have had them most of the winter. One came visiting under the feeders last night.

Travel to exotic places is the price of celebrity jz.

Julie,Is there any way that you can post larger ph...

2007-02-07T06:57:00.000-05:00

Julie,

Is there any way that you can post larger photos. The tracks are difficult to see with the size photos you use.

We have skunks around here...never see them, just ...

2007-02-06T21:51:00.001-05:00

We have skunks around here...never see them, just smell them.
What a biomass your land is holding!

Julie, another good track post but I was clueless....

2007-02-06T21:51:00.000-05:00

Julie, another good track post but I was clueless. I'm learning here.

Travel safely tomorrow and I'm glad Shila will be with you.

Hey Anon,Did you know that whether you like the sm...

2007-02-06T21:18:00.000-05:00

Hey Anon,

Did you know that whether you like the smell of skunk or not is genetically determined? I do, too. There is actually a support group of sorts for people who like the smell of skunk, I've heard.
Beth, glad you like the line. I liked it too. I looked into the moon's beautiful face and was sad to see her so clueless that night.
Kathi, I would have to roll in the snow if I ever got the chance to track a wolverine!
I get to drive to Pittsburgh in the morning, wooeee. Gotta give a talk to the Three Rivers Birding Club. Wish me luck. I'm taking Shila, my lucky charm, with me, so at least there will be good gab as we crawl north. I hear you got a lot more snow in Cinci...but it looks like there's a good 2 1/2" new as of this evening, and it's still coming down.

Aw, man - even with the hints, I didn't get it! W...

2007-02-06T21:11:00.000-05:00

Aw, man - even with the hints, I didn't get it! When you said "bear-like" tracks and waddling gait, I went to wolverine, before I remember they aren't Whipple natives. Well, at least I was in the right family.

4.5" of snow when I got home from work tonight (a 2 hr, 15 min trip... YUCK!) and more to come. Maybe I will get to see some tracks in the snow tomorrow morning. The good news is it is warmer. 17 degrees feels so much better than minus 9.

~Kathi, shaky after a white-knuckle drive home

I know this is weird, but I love the smell of skun...

2007-02-06T20:14:00.000-05:00

I know this is weird, but I love the smell of skunk!!

Here skunks are not true hibernators, just sleepin...

2007-02-06T20:04:00.000-05:00

Here skunks are not true hibernators, just sleeping in through the toughest weather, and we see them on and off all winter. They are courting here now, stinking up the neighborhoods as they do so. Is it courtship time there as well or are they a little later there? (I'm on the east coast)Thanks for the little tour. Love Baker in his red coat.

Thanks for the walk in the woods. Love the tracks...

2007-02-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the walk in the woods. Love the tracks and they inspire me to do some suburban backyard tracking. Mostly rabbits, and thanks to the arctic air, not much else is moving about.

I love that line and feel pressed to sit at my pia...

2007-02-06T19:11:00.000-05:00

I love that line and feel pressed to sit at my piano and play for the shallow moon....

By the way, my mom called yesterday and said, "I finally picked up that book you gave me by that lady in Ohio - it is just marvelous! Absolutely wonderful!"

Her tone displayed a much deeper apprecation than she usually voices for the latest Janet Evanovich novel. I think you've won her over!

Thanks, Julie, for brightening my mom's day...and mine.