Headin' for Cover ~ Gray Fox & Purple Coneflowers

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HEADIN' FOR COVER

Gray Fox, Purple Coneflowers, and Blackberry
Print Dimensions X x Y inches
Original Medium: acrylic on polymer board

Price: (Framed) US $

The gray fox is the woodland counterpart to the familiar red fox of the open country. It is also a decidedly southern animal, and unlike the red fox it will readily take to climbing trees, a habit that makes this fox unsuitable for the horseback sport of fox hunting. It is much smaller than the red and therefore more likely to become another predator's lunch. I have painted this one as it heads back to the woods from a jaunt into the open. I remember the time I found a young gray's body- it had been caught up in a narrow break in a wire fence, perhaps as it was running away from some perceived danger or perhaps pursuing a meadow vole. It must have darted hard and fast through the opening and became trapped. It seemed to be healthy and otherwise unharmed, quite a shame to lose such a lovely creature.

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17732 Branch Road
Hudson, Florida 34667
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