" when I have seen you I have waked and slipped from the calendars

from the creeds of difference and the contradictions

       that were my life and all the crumbling fabrications

as long as it lasted until something that we were

       had ended when you are no longer anything

let me catch sight of you again going over the wall

       and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures

guttering on a screen let my words find their own

       places in the silence after the animals "

from Vixen

W.S. Merwin

Earlier I posted photos of the fox kits, this is mom. She has been 

playing a game with Willow for years where she shows herself

so Willow can chase her. We have heard of these odd relationships

between farm dogs and foxes from other farm families. Willow is

a very large Border Collie mix and the fox is tiny so it is an odd

interaction. This week When we drove into the yard Willow was chasing 

the fox then Willow turned around and ran while the fox chased her. 

The other day my mother in law mentioned that the kits were playing 

with Willow's toys while she watched quietly from the window given 

that Willow is very protective of the yard this seems very unusual.