Living in the Wild, Wild West

No, Seriously

Misty Rae
the Challenged
Published in
2 min readSep 4, 2024

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Ducks behind my house: Photo is mine

I love nature. I love wildlife. I love taking pictures of both. Thankfully, where I live, in western Canada, I have both in spades!

There’s wildlife everywhere you turn. I don’t even have to leave my yard. There’s a prairie dog that lives under my stairs or under the building… under there someplace. I’ve never been able to get a picture of him or her, they move fast!

Photo by Jake Mailloux on Unsplash

And it’s not just my stairs. They’re everywhere. It’s common to see little holes all over the fields, all little prairie dog burrows. They’re a cute little nuisance, to be honest.

There are deer too, and bears…

A few miles away, there’s a lake and turtles:

Turtles: Photo is mine

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Misty Rae
the Challenged

6X Top Writer. Former legal eagle. Wife, mother, nature lover, chef, writer and all-around free spirit . https://ko-fi.com/mistyrae