Oh, and, happy leapin’ Leap Year to ya!
Looks like we’re about to get whammied up here in and around Quincy, CA. Quincy is in the “one-to-four feet of snow” elevation range; 3,419’ a.s.l. We had a beaut of a snow storm (Snow’s all I got, s’know what I mean?) in March of last year. Hoo boy, as a kid I sure loved a heavy snow storm. Maybe even school would close, but actually that was pretty rare. Our dratted school bus drivers knew how to chain up.
Here’s what could happen:
“Six weeks? I’ll starve!”
But, sigh, I wax histrionic I fear. For one thing, the cat at least is covered.
To which the cat, being a cat, says “Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is the least you could do.”
Ah, yes, but.
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So on with the nature. Yesterday, Wednesday February 28, it was, as I mentioned, just brilliantly clear and blue sky and calm and cool. After some morning errands and chores I hopped on the bicycle and made my rounds. Without further ado,
Red-tailed Hawk
Black Phoebe
Lesser Goldfinch
The foregoing were along the bicycle path. When I got out to the wastewater treatment plant there weren’t many birds on the pond, but I sat down anyway and took a good look. The customary Bufflehead and Ring-necked Duck and American Coot and Canada Goose and Mallard, and I’ve got hundreds of those shots and the shots from the wastewater settling pond don’t come out looking very good anyway, and then a Bald Eagle flew in to a tree no more than one hundred yards across from me. Ooh, ooh, easy pickings.
The rest of the BAEA poses I got today:
So, even though it’s likely to be snow later on up to my Wazzoo, I’ll not fret nor frown. I don’t have to shovel or clear it anyway. That’s someone else’s job.
Oh, hey, just found this vid. Pretty neat.
Now it’s your turn. Any snow out your way? (Lenny Flank, I ain’t askin’ you. I already know your answer.)
What’s been up in your world of nature and its changes and cycles?