Winter Walks
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:02 pm
Tired of movie-watching and anxious for spring, yesterday I took my ladyfriend out into the woods.
The trees were bare and the sky a dramatic leaden color. The air was still chill enough that I could see my breath but not cold enough to bite. The snow was still on the ground, half-melted, turning the ground muddy beneath, and the waterways were clear of ice--a veritable marketplace of mallards, swans, and Canadian geese. We spotted a pair of cardinals, innumerable sparrows, various squirrels, and a heron; we tracked a rabbit, someone's leashed dog, and a small catlike creature; we got slightly lost and had to backtrack because the trail was not clearly blazed; we stood on a log bridge and kicked snow into the lake. It was absolutely, coldly, wildly beautiful.
Has anyone else gotten out there recently?
The trees were bare and the sky a dramatic leaden color. The air was still chill enough that I could see my breath but not cold enough to bite. The snow was still on the ground, half-melted, turning the ground muddy beneath, and the waterways were clear of ice--a veritable marketplace of mallards, swans, and Canadian geese. We spotted a pair of cardinals, innumerable sparrows, various squirrels, and a heron; we tracked a rabbit, someone's leashed dog, and a small catlike creature; we got slightly lost and had to backtrack because the trail was not clearly blazed; we stood on a log bridge and kicked snow into the lake. It was absolutely, coldly, wildly beautiful.
Has anyone else gotten out there recently?