Beautiful anecdote.
Animals can work miracles in the human spirit
What a wonderful visit.

He graciously caught it midair and discarded it at once.

This was hillarious. and they are quite refined, eating cheddar cheese and all. I hav enot seen cheddar since 2008, when I came back from the States.

We get a white heron once in a while, but she does not come visit us specifically. she lands two or three houses from ours and eats tiny fish from the gutter. It is a delight to see her approach the street. Imagine,urban, traffic, people walking kids to school and she elegantly gliding down over cars and heads.

She has not come for a while. some say she was eaten by some hungry "new man", the debris of the revolution.