very cool, a bobcat is a special animal. you both are very fortunate!
Ah, my dear; it's not magical thinking, but serendipity that's at play! Does it matter that the two are most probably not linked? You had a perfect moment - a wonderful story to share with friends, and a visit you will long remember. If there was any magic to it, it was in the lingering memory of the creature itself. Life can be so marvelously unexpected. It's that hope and belief that keeps my spirits up when bad times come knocking at my door.
Yes, it's awesome! Just that ...
Such adventures and you don't even have to leave home!
An amazing place you live!
alan
Great photos!
Great story!
Great logic!
Perhaps it's you, not the rock, that is the magical one.
Because you are
and
because you observe
and
because you share
therefore
you are magical
(or
at least a wonderful person
with whom to share the planet.)
Thank you for everything!
I don't believe you.....I say you have magic in your life! 
Can I borrow your neighbor's jade carving? I'm a believer in magically-aided serendipity now too!
Lovely amalgam of individual ideas here!
And of course the bobcat. Someday I'm just going to slaughter everyone with a pic of bobcat kittens playing with their mother.
and, i just read the post below this one to learn that it runs in the family - your sister has magic, too! i want some! 
Great bobcat -
(I don't have a werwolf around - do you suppose it is because I planted garlic?)
My favorite Latin phrase!
I would never have guessed that a bobcat would fit through that small a space. (And now wonder about rabbits too!)
Cool.
Great story and who knows why, but wonderful to see the bobcat anyway.
Right now, although we have one that comes across our place, I'd just as soon not see it as we have baby lambs and they are sooooooooo tiny. They are a small breed of sheep and then add to it newborns. Anyway might be tempting magic too much... Although I do tell the wild things to leave our charges alone and mostly they do.
Okay, I confess...I did it. The bobcat was my idea, I just wanted to see if you'd fall for the "magic carving" thingie.
Guess you didn't.
I love this thought-provoking post, and of course your oneness with all things wild.
...and when it's all said and done...what harm does a little jade carving do...just in case!!
you create the magic by being there, watching and seeing. and let's face it - the earth is just full of magic. all on its own.
You probably didn't clap your hands to save Tinkerbell, either!
Dawn-- We love seeing bobcats. It's really one of the most exciting experiences.
TFLS-- It is the moment itself that is so awesome. And it does uplift our spirits on the those days when they need some serious lifting.
Pam-- My feeling exactly.
alan-- When we lived in California I would see bobcats out my window at work. I thought I'd have to give that up when we moved north. So, you know we feel very very lucky that we see them here, right in our yard.
OW-- Whenever we do get to see a bobcat it is quite a moment.
sky-- It does feel like magic when we see a bobcat, but I don't think it's magical that it happens. It's that distinction I was trying to make.
Wayne-- I would love to send this carving to you, but it's not mine. How about if I channel its energy to you, and you open your chakras and let it flow right in. Then you look out a south-facing window. See what happens.
sky-- Wasn't that great that my sister had a hummingbird in her house? Usually, when she finds a bird in her house, it's been brought in by her cats. This one flew in on its own, and escaped with its life!
endment-- Garlic, definitely. We planted ours too. No werewolves here. Whew.
rurality-- The opening in the lower part of the fencing is graduated. The lowest openings are 1 x 6, then 2 x 6, then 3 x 6 all the way up to 6 x 6. Rabbits can't get in. It was amazing to watch the bobcat go through that opening, but it did. It explains how the one from last September got out of the yard. We thought it went over, but we didn't see it jump. It absolutely went through it.
rain-- It would be sad to lose a lamb to a predator. We feel that way about our kitty cat. I am concerned every time I let him outside. I worried about coyotes, but they never come in over the fence, it's the bobcats that come in through it. Who knew?
FC-- So it was you. I wondered who sent that little charmer here. Thanks.
YT-- It's what I think about when confronted with logical fallacies. I spent many years in Santa Cruz, CA where magical thinking is the general ambiance of the community. It's fun and delightful, but I find reality a much better place to dwell.
Anne-- Yes, it's the difference between the magic of earth, and magical thinking about it. The earth is awe-inspiring.
kathyr-- How funny! My mom always encouraged us to clap our hands for Tinkerbell, and so we did. I remember clapping and believing!
I do love to see a good solid rational mind at work! Funny, I just had a rather intense exchange with our beloved son the other night about raional thinking, and he was arguing against my insistence that if one is religious, one has made a leap of faith and is not being entirely rational.
However - As for symbols,idols, etc. Some years ago, Mr. P was on a softball team full of much younger fellows, whose wives were all in the process of having kids, from trying to get pregnant to toting the little ones around. Anyway, they had been passing around this astoundingly ugly ceramic thing they called "Freda the Fertility Frog." It was a reclining caricature of a frog, wearing lipstick. Every one of them who had harbored this object had become pregnant. One woman in particular, who'd had three kids, refused in horror to even transport Freda to someone's house for them!
And these were all college-educated women of no particular ethnic background. Must be the "woo woo" vibes up here in the Pacific NW!
I like the big cat photos.
Great post.
Great photos.
Great experience.
Great comments.
Isabelita-- Oh, I remember those conversations, when I was young and it was my parents trying to tell me about what was rational. Years later I remembered to tell them they had it right after all!
I was telling dpr at dinner that I recall reading somewhere years ago about real estate agents burying some "idol" in the backyards of houses that absolutely needed to sell. It always worked, just like that fertility frog. Oy. How is it that we've gotten to the 21st century like this?
MB-- I am so glad you liked the whole thing. It really has been quite an experience. We were still talking about it, two days later. Like an earthquake.
where magical thinking is the general ambiance of the community
At this, I laughed out loud. It's the Achilles heel of the hippie crowd, isn't it?
Fun post. I'm glad the bobcats are still running around, and available for you to photograph. Sometimes things happen that can be mighty strange. As TFLS said, "serendipity".
I'd trust more in the cat's need for continuity and order than carved stone. Every now and then it's his time to visit certain locations.
BTW, in time he may grow used to your presence and start taking his time crossing your yard.
oh, great bobcat photos! and i'll take a pint of chakras, please!
seriously, i like serendipity -- those times when things just seem to line up. we naturally want to put things in order, even we messy and non-magical people -- and sometimes the universe complies. gives me a smile sometimes!
Phantom-- I never thought of it as the Achilles heel, but that absolutely describes it. That little weakness.
owl-- I'm just glad that the cats walk nearby and we get to see them. It's the most delightful thing. They are beautiful little wild creatures.
Alan Kellogg-- welcome to the Dharma Bums, and thanks for leaving a comment. I love the idea of the cat growing accustomed to our presence, and taking his time to cross our yard. That's definitely something to look forward to. We are not going to entice him, but we will never deter him either.
kathy a-- Yes, you said it, sometimes the universe complies. No reason. No plan. No rationale. We make meaning out of it, but it's just random and it makes our day!
rd-anybody that references the simpsons does magical thinking!
now that's my kind of magic.
and besides that, more pictures of a cool cat.
annie-- A very funny and good point about The Simpsons reference. And a cool cat indeed!
doh!
I was away yesterday, so forgive me if I repeat anything said above--busy today and no time to read.
It's wonderful that the bobcat can slip through the rabbit fence. I'll bet he/she helps keep the rabbits out of your yard!
Excellent story. Thanks for sharing. Now, where do I get one of those Mayan jaguar carvings...?
Cool pics, BTW! The OP is a great place.
We don't have bobcats in our backyard but I think we have possums living under our house. : )
On Opossums:
Had a dog once. A mutt. She was abused as a puppy, then abandoned. A friend's nieces found her and brought her home for Uncle Robert to take care of. She was scared of everything.
Over the months she grew to trust us, then bonded with us. She was never, "right" but she did get better.
Then one day she's out back when an opossum shows up scrounging for food. We all expected little Duchess to come whining for protection from the evil giant rat. Instead we hear an enormously incensed small dog going for the marsupial as if it were her sworn duty to render the species extinct.
We all looked at each other and asked, quite unbelieving, "Duchess?"
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