These photographs are of some of the non-human and non-avian creatures I've encountered, managed to get a decent shot of, and with whom I feel so blessed to be sharing this world.

​"They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the Earth."​ ~Henry Beston
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