Country Folk? Man, our cities are becoming some strange Sci-Fi dystopia, with all sorts of wild things creeping around.
While meandering home at 3 am from an evening of Debauchery and Gluttony :evil: in the trendy "Old Town" neighborhood of Chicago, I was heading home via Division St. as I passed just west of Clyborn, on the grounds of the Cabrini Green housing projects, I saw a coyote loping across the lawn. I think he was hunting rats. This is as totally Urban a setting as one can get. East from there, Division St is the bottom of a canyon of 4 to 40 story tall condo developments, west on Division, the Cabrini is itself a collection of 25 story high rises, though only 3 are left, the others have been demolished. There are a lot of factories and partially clear demolition sites, and new construction sites. Also near is Goose Island (Ernie will think "Beer"
, famous for its brewery) and the Chicago River, which is probably the greenway the coyotes used to get into the city. Kind of neat to see, it was a bold coyote, didn't seem to care that I stopped to look at it. Then it loped off, and ducked behind an aboandoned church that is scheduled for demo. Then I heard gun shots, shouting, and a couple squad cars zipped by lights ablaze, I thought it best to get my car in gear and get my suburban "behind" out of there before Evil happens to include me in. (this is a snippet of my upcoming book a revisit of "Tales from the City" set in Chicago instead of SF):wink:
Nature is moving in on us.