Gentleman of Leisure has become my favorite CD of the last decade.

I regularly run on the ten miles of mountain bike trails in a nearby woods. Two Springs ago, as I was running along a ridge, no fewer than four squirrels ran along the trail in front of me for about ten yards before finally darting off into the woods.

As I ran downhill and off the ridge I was thinking how tame the squirrels were becoming. Because my mind was on the squirrels, I almost overlooked the sight that only registered after I'd run about ten yards past it.

I walked back along the trail to find, a mere three feet off the trail, two fox kits wrestling with each other. They were so into their play that they remained oblivious to my presence. They remained that way and I was able to stand there and watch them playing for five minutes or more, even though I was standing right over them.

My feeder is lousy with woodpeckers -- but the one elusive one (for this region) is the pileated. I finally saw a pair of those in the same woods where the fox incident occurred.