Subtle Signs
Mother Nature continues to tempt us with thoughts of springtime.
They may be subtle.
They may be minor.
But they exist just the same.
The warmth of a 40 degree day actually *feels* warm. The sun has a strength to it that has been lacking. Makes you want to lay down in it and dream.
Delicate lacings of ice are all that covers last year's dry grasses on south facing slopes.
Though the snow still rests heavily on the mountain... a wind blown south facing slope is the place to be!
The trails through the deep snow on the north sides of hills are softening... and they lead to the dry south slope of the next hill.
The ice covering the Nowood has fallen out... at least up here by my house... leaving ice flows to be buffeted by current and sunshine...
No green grass yet.
No babies.
No summer bird songs.
But it's coming. I know it is!
Thank you for the reminder that spring
is coming, in both word and picture.
Old Man Winter is still in full force
here in WNY, and the ice-boom on Lake
Erie tends to delay spring even longer.
I saw a pileated woodpecker on Sunday
whose tapping echoed the neighborhood.
Hope Dally is OK after the bump on her
head, and that Lucas's paw is healing.
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