Go for a walk

stories about nature | a tiny possum | cultivating patience

There’s a little ringtail possum living in my garden, in a nesting box my husband and daughter built about three years ago. We were told it could take a few years for someone to move in, and every so often we would check the box - held high up in a gum tree near our fence line - for signs of life. For years: nothing. I had almost given up hope, when one…