Fearless Hunter
There’s a bit of a warm spell blowing in to the area. But the farm is on high ground and what falls as rain locally often falls as snow at the farm. This is looking out my front door yesterday. Today there’s a bit of drizzle, so the snow on the boughs will get very heavy and fall off. It’s amazing how evergreens know how to dump the load when its too heavy. (Something we could all learn from evergreens!)
Jesse is a good Canadian – he enjoys the winter. Actually I think he enjoys all seasons, but I don’t enjoy the muddy season that precedes and follows winter, so he doesn’t get as many walks out the back. But in winter I try and get out with him for a ski or snowshoe every day.
There’s a thicket about half way up the back knoll that always catches Jesse’s attention. Obviously something is living in there – probably a jack rabbit, but who knows. Every day that we go back there he rushes to that thicket and gets all excited. By the time I catch up to him he’s already stompted out the footprints of the thicket-resident so I can’t tell what it is. The tree behind Jesse is a wild apple tree, so I expect this is a good residence for something that likes to munch on the dead fall fruit.
Maybe one day my fearless hunter will catch whatever is living in the thicket.