Oh, take pictures, take pictures, take pictures! If we have wildlife, it sounds like your home is in the middle of Wild Kingdom!!!!
Yes, we do have a lot of wildlife for living within the city limits. But as I was saying to a commenter above, Duluth, though a city of 80,000, sits all by itself in northern Minnesota. There are only a scattering of towns inland from it, and a few strung up the shore. All of them are small. The rest of this area for a hundred miles in every direction (except toward the lake) is northern forest and bogs, and small bits of farmed or graising land. And even though this is a city with a downtown and densely populated neighborhoods, the city, built along the hillside slanting into the lake, is very long but very narrow. There's no part of it that isn't "close" to the wild areas beyond the rim of the hill. And the hillsides are cut by little forested ravines through which creeks and brooks flow into the lake. Wildlife come up and down these without being seen, as well as along the overgrown train tracks that run along the lake in and out of town, another thoroughfare for wildlife.
I just finished reading all your comments at this entry and I've certainly learned a lot about Duluth and its environs. Sounds like a wonderful place to live...the best of both worlds.
If it weren't so danged cold and the winters so danged dark and drear, and so danged LONG, I would love living here, unequivocally. But if the winters were shorter and milder I suppose loads and loads of other people would live up here. Then it would no longer be a small city stuck by itself in the wilds of northern Minnesota on the "the big lake". A curmudgeonly friend of ours, a lover of the lake and north shore scenery (he lives in a little house just north of town, right across from its shore), says our terrible winters are crucial, "to keep out the riff-raff". :)
Yes, we do have a lot of wildlife for living within the city limits. But as I was saying to a commenter above, Duluth, though a city of 80,000, sits all by itself in northern Minnesota. There are only a scattering of towns inland from it, and a few strung up the shore. All of them are small. The rest of this area for a hundred miles in every direction (except toward the lake) is northern forest and bogs, and small bits of farmed or graising land. And even though this is a city with a downtown and densely populated neighborhoods, the city, built along the hillside slanting into the lake, is very long but very narrow. There's no part of it that isn't "close" to the wild areas beyond the rim of the hill. And the hillsides are cut by little forested ravines through which creeks and brooks flow into the lake. Wildlife come up and down these without being seen, as well as along the overgrown train tracks that run along the lake in and out of town, another thoroughfare for wildlife.
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LOL That applies perfectly to where we live, too. Your friend is correct.
Hmm, don't have any winter icons uploaded yet, so this will have to do. I guess it could be either rain or snow.
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