Living at the city’s edge is wonderful. There are large native trees and shrubs, some with fancy flowers in spring, such as cottonwood and catalpa, and lots of wildlife. Among the latter are deer, raccoons, rabbits, foxes, skunks, opossums, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, shrews, and others. In summer, the air is full with colorful swallowtail and monarch butterflies, fancy moths such as the luna and sphinx, and a large assortment of birds, including chickadees, gold finches, cardinals, juncos, warblers, wrens, woodpeckers, ruby throated hummingbirds, and even the occasional raptor.
