Just Looking

This morning it was in the teens again,but the sky was white like snow. Oh drear. Is that a word?

Bunny tracks in the snow, a dig spot, scrapped bark from a honeysuckle

Not much food around I guess.

It's pretty hard to find joy without any color....this garden wench needs color. But I make it a point of just taking a brief stroll around the property just to see. See what? See..just see.

The snow crunched under my feet as I walked to the back of the yard to find the mystery bush..see if the berries looked as joyous red in the bland color of this morning sky.

Well, low and behold, not a single berry was left. The snow below it was stained with red..red berry remnants. They must have been hungry my little wards...and it's only January. All the seed heads have been plundered from the garden flowers. Not a single one left untouched.

Last year I had the landscapers "clean my yard" in the fall. When I got home that afternoon,I was horrified that they had removed every bit of everything. Whistle clean. My neighbors thought they did a good job. My heart sunk....what will they eat...where will they hide?

This fall I threatened them..only the front.....but even that was unwise. They cut down my grasses...no shelter for the rabbits. I love the sight of rabbits on the glistening snow at night, especially under a full moon.

I could go on and show you other joy things I saw...beauty still on a gloomy white gray sky morning ..frozen water on my Hawthorns from a dripping gutter....but it's late and I have miles to go before I sleep.

Oh, guess who showed up again brazenly staring me down through my patio door....Nasty Harry Hawk!

I shooed him....but he'll be back

Maybe the Long earred owls (3 of them) will show up again in late January. They took care of him..

I know, I know....but I never saw what they ate.

:) Susan