I am watching one of my naughty squirrels sitting in the bird feeder right now and the birds are complaining. I complain when those same squirrels keep peeing on my porch screen and I can five yellow streaks right now. The gray squirrels are the trouble makers and so far the black squirrels just eat on the ground.
Good Squirrel
A small hint of purple in the sky and long shadows as the day ends on cold winter Wisconsin day.
Winter Evening Approaches
The below normal February temperatures this year is allowing some ice formation by the sea caves again, for the third time this year. And if the winds don’t blow the ice pack away from the cliffs, the caves might open in a week or two for visitors again but at the moment there are too many thin spots to walk safely on the ice like last year.
A Walk on the Ice
The night brought a new coating of snow so many of the critter tracks are covered over with the blowing snow. But there are definitely squirrel tracks coming from the trees to my bird feeders and to my porch which they decorated my porch screen again with yellow pee – both this morning and yesterday morning. They better quit doing that as it is too cold to keep washing the screens.
New Coating of Snow
Another light coating of snow overnight hides the ice patches so I probably will practice my ice jig again today like I did yesterday. At least when I visited the ice caves last year, you expected to find ice, although it did come in more colors, shapes and textures than I imagined.
Icy Tunnel
With new snow falling this morning, I’m not sure if the kitten will like to play in the deeper snow or not since last time she would keep shaking the snow flakes off her back.
Snowy Kitten
It appears the ice monster had swallowed a mouth full of people last year but it may be hungry this year with no visitors able to get near it.
Hungry Ice Monster
After slipping on a patch of ice this morning and doing a not so pretty impromptu dance, I not sure ice is so pretty to look at, especially if it looks like a monster ready to devour me.
Ice Monster
Surface ice had been forming again along the sea caves, but winds on the weekend blew the ice back out into Lake Superior so there is open (and mighty chilly) water where I stood just one year ago to take pictures of the icy formations. And because I was busy taking pictures of the ice caves, we didn’t get too far the first day (and didn’t reach the end of the caves after the second afternoon either).
Ice a Year Ago
The dark bare limbs with a pink backdrop from a sunrise or sunset adds color during winter days.
Winter Pink
