Stalking My Prey

I am the great hunter. I prowl through the forest searching for anything I can catch. I am light on my feet, and I don't make a sound as I stalk gracefully and stealthily in attack mode. I crouch down with my weapon in position, ready for anything. Then I see my target, sitting there quietly and unknowingly on an old fallen log.

I point my weapon at it, and then, FLASH, I hit my prey right where it counts! There is no movement whatsoever as I now confidently approach, but I know there still might be others. I then pounce into action! I'm upon this little morsel before it knows I even exist! This mushroom never suspected I was coming.

Yup, that's what I said. Mushroom. It's a strange looking fella for being a mushroom, but a fungus is a fungus, and among us. That rhymes, or my name isn't Slippery Sam. Oh, wait, my name isn't... Ah forget it! You all know my name is Ratty, and I claim to be a human that dresses up like a giant mouse. No wonder I never show any pictures of me!

All I have for you are pictures of animals and other cool beasties from the world of nature. And this time I have this strange mushroom. These things seem to like my forest. At one time I knew just what this one might be, but I'll just be content to show it to you today. Who needs all that technical mumbo jumbo anyway?

What we all really want is the strange fantasy land that we sometimes call nature. Oh, by the way, this is a closeup of that strange mushroom. Nature can be a fantasy land for anyone, or it can be anything we want. You can go out there and imagine it to be anything you want, because it has everything.

I sometimes pretend I'm a wild predator, out there to hunt the other cute little animals. They don't like that, but I find it amusing. Sometimes I pretend to be the main character in one of those shoot 'em up video games. My camera is the gun. I have to use stealth to shoot my targets. Getting what I want helps win the game. And sometimes it's just me, enjoying the peace and harmony of nature and all its creatures. Ain't Nature Grand?


Nature Center Magazine - Some of you have requested it, so I have a Cool Nature Video this time like never before! In this video I finally give you a glimpse into what a typical day with Ratty is really like. This is a look into my own personal nature fantasy world. The main character may be familiar to many of you. Can you guess who he might be?