Owlways Moore

When I was very young, my parents and I lived with our good friends the Moores in Philadelphia. My father wrote me recently:

HootHoot was a stump, a tree section that was standing in the Moores' yard, that looked like an owl. We named it HootHoot and would look out the window at it. I remember especially how it looked in the snow, with its "ears" sticking up like an owl's.

The ability to turn inanimate objects into friends, appreciation of woodland creatures, love of Moore...thank you, formative years.