under the willow tree

2006-10-17 Day 2 Pond & Dead Raccoon 028, originally uploaded by jessica_beagan.

By the pond in my backyard. I thought it was alive at first. I thought about rabies and it startled me. I ran away, back toward the building. But when I thought about it, the animal . . . if it were alive, it would have run or attacked me long before I ever knew it were there.

So I went back, and got more and more bold and so I got more and more close to the raccoon. It looks like it died at the door of its home, outside the door of my home.