The Local Flora and Fauna

One of the things I love about living in Indiana is how lush and colorful it is. There are TONS of trees (which should start changing colors soon, YAY!), grass, shrubs, flowers, you name it.

Of course, with all this flora, you get some local fauna too. At the old house we had a family of raccoons that would come visit in the middle of the night. I had to go out in the morning and stomp on the deck to scare them off before sending the dogs outside.

We haven't seen any raccoons at the new house, although we hear from the neighbor that they're around. Apparently they've eaten through her garbage can lids! However, we have seen a few of these cuties:


They may be cute, but we hear possums are nasty. We're not going to meet it to find out.

We also found one of THESE in our yard - YIKES!


It's a dreaded PennyMonster!