Showing Promise

Even though it snowed (!! again!!) yesterday today holds promise of spring temperatures.

Bring it on! Hop over to Today's Flowers #290 for a taste of beauty.

Not Much Green

Not much green to be seen here.

 

Eight inches.

Even the fox today was gray. Mrs Foxy Loxy.

The only color in the landscape was the skier. No school again!

 Happy St Patrick's day anyway.

Just A Dusting

OK. Winter can be done now. But nooooo...today we're due for a "dusting" of snow. So far:

 But the snow makes for good fox sighting. Here's the big guy in my neighbors yard last week.

With the snow on the ground you can see where he scaled the chain link fence.

And made his way across the yard...

 I had just opened the front door, camera in hand, to take a s now picture when I sighted him as he crossed. He saw me and put on more speed before I could react. I went out and followed the tracks.

 Behind the row of evergreens to the corner of the fence and back into my yard...

 Past the shed and under the blue spruce...

 Through the boxwood row and into the field...

 Down the path....

 Back out to cross the field...

 Into the brush....

 And out....

Finally into deep cover where I could not follow. I could see the older tracks he had made on the way into the yards. He seems to have a routine path. The last snow I saw him playing in the snow in the field but he was too far away to get a good picture. Maybe next time.

Snow Days

Not all that much snow, but enough to close school for two days and have a two hour delay on Thursday. Coupled with MLK day it was a six day break for the kids.

The birds were flocking to the feeder.

Zen meditation

 Finally back to school. They missed the fox playing in the snow today.

Boy Joy

 Snow at last.

 Boy joy for the Nanoks of the North South.

 Ready to launch that pile of snow down his brother's neck.

 But its OK if you get the snow in yourself.

Too bad it was so little a snowfall and just a dusting again to ight.