It is still winter. Here in the Kingdom we want to eek out every minute of winter we can before spring magically arrives tomorrow. And so we shall….it should snow most of tonight, giving us an additional 5 inches before it calls it quits. Lately there have been lots of days above freezing. At night, the temps plummet. The snow crusts on the top, a bit more falls and the result is fantastic snow shoe conditions! Yesterday, I spent about four hours on top of the snow, not exactly relaxing but beautiful. The boundaries had to be marked, clearly and with red tape. Remember the logging issue? The logger needs some reminders, a bit of gentle direction, a whack if he gets any closer. There isn’t a better time to do this kind of work. No bugs, no tangled undergrowth (it is buried under all the snow) and no leaves to hide previous markers. As long as you don’t have to dig for pins, it is easy going. I wasn’t the only one out. Everybody in the woods is waking up. They’ve got the calendar marked. It is weird and it is wonderful, how everything knows. Tracks are everywhere, beginning at my front door.
There were a lot of visitors checking to see if the otters were in town. I think they ate themselves out of house and home last year. I’ve only seen one, and he was passing through.
The fisher was here, I saw his prints in a few locations, mostly near the hemlocks.
There are always coyotes. They were after something I didn’t find.
The streams are barely visible.
Spring is still… Undercover…
9 responses to “spring arrives in the Kingdom”
Oh. My. God. I was kvetching about the mist that was falling this morning before the afternoon of partly cloudy. Oy.
However, I still wish this house would sell so I could be there.
I wonder if Newport got all that snow?
Sounds cozy, despite a foot. What’s another foot?
So much for spring in the Kingdom! Although, it’s cold and windy here so we’re not doing much better.
Nice photo of the redpolls in the snow!
Another foot?? Seems a shame to have to get out a shovel when the calender says spring.
You have the right idea though, hibernate a little longer in front of a cozy stove.
It was pretty nasty over here in the Champlain Valley all morning, but cleared up by the afternoon. I do not know what redpolls are! I must learn about them.
Omigawd, kitty bliss! If you could do a video of all those flittery, hopping little appetizers, he would probably watch it for hours!
Oh I BET Sammy was excited. Ha! 🙂
You got snow, we got wind! I almost blew away on my way to work this morning.
Mmmm the wood stove sounds lovely. I miss mine.
Thank Goodness the snow God passed over us this time except for a few inches. No birds on the snow here yet…..hopefully they will be home soon 🙂