So many of our experiences living at Lake George that are worth retelling revolve around critters. I guess that’s because it didn’t take us long to realize that we were living in their spaces, and we’d better pay attention! Too, it seems that as the world gets ever more crowded with humans, there’s simply less room and resources for the animals that remain in the places we are so bent upon owning, managing, changing, and perhaps ultimately destroying.

I’m no Rachael Carson or John Muir, but I hope that after reading some of these stories, the reader will come away with a sense of the awe and wonder of the place and time when we lived on the shores of Lake George, in the Ocala National Forest, in an old log cabin- with lots of critters around.