There were hints of ground peeking out from the snow in spots, but no open pastures with green grass for calves to romp in yet.
Romping Calves
Picture of the Day for April 4, 2013
Climbing the hills and rocks would definitely be more fun than hiking through the snow drifts. The snow, with the thawing, rain and re-freezing, feels as hard as rocks when you fall.
I don’t know if I could climb to the top but a young fox had no problem getting to the top to look down at me.
Climb the Rocks
Picture of the Day for April 3, 2013
I sure rather see some of these Violas than the snow but it appears they won’t be blooming for a while.
Smiling Faces
Picture of the Day for April 2, 2013
This Eastern Screech Owl didn’t appreciated the cold, snowy Easter either as it was trying to nap in the bouncing tree branch. I would have been seasick the way the branch was swaying but the owl seemed to manage to nap and would only open its eyes if I hooted loud enough.
But this owl normally sleeps in the day and emerges from its roost at dusk to hunt insects and other small prey. The Eastern Screech-Owl’s color ranges from gray to brown to reddish. The chicks in a nest may be different colors.
Screech Owl
Picture of the Day for April 1, 2013
It looks like Mother Nature pulled the April Fool’s joke this year since it snowed on Easter and there is still several feet of that white stuff on the ground!
April Fools
Picture of the Day for March 31, 2013
The Easter bunny has to be careful where it hides the eggs this year as they could be very hard to find under the snow. So I don’t know if the bunny is praying that the kids can find the eggs or just praying that spring will come so there would be clovers to eat.
Easter Bunny
Picture of the Day for March 30, 2013
I thought I heard a chipmunk scampering by the retaining wall and that is the only place he could stand up to see above the snow line. Everywhere else he would need very tall stilts since the snow is still rather deep even with a couple of melting days.
Chipmunk Needing Stilts
Picture of the Day for March 29, 2013
This morning there has been a war on between me and the squirrels. I have a half dozen gray squirrels raiding the bird feeders and they aren’t scared of my cat or me. Now if they would have been busy last fall putting their nuts in the hollow tree like this red squirrel did instead of burying the acorns all over my lawn that they can’t find now under the deep snow, they wouldn’t have to stealing my bird seed!
Squirrel War
Picture of the Day for March 28, 2013
When clearing a heavy snowfall, sometimes it is hard to figure out where the driveway is so today I could actually see some lawn after the melting yesterday since I cleared some snow off the lawn instead of the driveway. But the lawn is brown and no green showing. Sometimes it is even hard to find green on a old rusty tractor and you have to search to find it.
Finding the Green
Picture of the Day for March 27, 2013
There is no sun out today to shine on the Jack-in-the-pulpits even if the snow wasn’t two feet deep but if they were blooming, ‘Jack’ would need a hood to keep the snow off his head this weekend since more snow predicted.
Jack Will Need a Hood
