A light
snow happened last night, putting down just under 4 inches and making
everything around look cleaner and more winter like. With the morning sun
shining through the lower forest trunks, the back woods took on the look of an
Ansel Adams photograph, all contrasts of light and dark, straight lines of
branches set against one another in snow.
We
walked the access road at midday, silently creating our own path through the
snow, crossing over tracks from various creatures that had trafficked there
through the night. This is the real wonder of new fallen snow. It reveals the
passage of what normally goes unseen, often no more than a stone throw from
your own dooryard.
We
recognized rabbit tracks, squirrel, several deer, and something that looked
like a large cat’s print. We’ve only seen the bobcat once, last fall as it
basked in the lower garden sun early in the morning. It stayed long enough to
hunt a few birds to no success then furtively padded away. The tracks today are
possibly from this same cat.
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