A little over 2 weeks ago, I set the Greek Oregano seeds in the “orange” jar…
Weekend before last, I set the remaining jars: Parsley (yellow), Basil (blue) and Cilantro (red-pink).
So.
Honestly…I didn’t have much hope that the few seeds in the packet would ever do anything… the limited sun, the low temperatures…
BUT! – I monitored and spritzed water and spoke lovingly to the seedlings….
And THEN….AND THEN!!!
A SPROUT in the Greek Oregano!
New Life!
In the spirit of the Easter season…NEW Life!
It happens every year.
One moment all looks dry and brown and dead, then seemingly in an instant, new growth begins and the woods starts greening up. The lilac buds are the first things I watch for. I love their shape and silhouettes.
Lilac buds.
There are plenty of deer in my neck of the woods! In fact a few too many. Still, I hate to think of them starving and these weeks with so much snow can not have been easy for them.
Lately, there have been a lot of deer on the property and they are eating the green, mossy stuff from the fallen branches.
This morning, they were having breakfast in the yard as Auggie watched. (Bear was in the bedroom, barking at those that were in that direction.)
So, no sooner had I posted “Snow”, then a fox…a FOX! – was in the yard. And it was in the yard for long enough that I got the camera, and adjusted settings…
And got my usual lousy wildlife photos.
Rats!
A beautiful fox.
I wish I had a photo to do it justice.
I’m posting the blurry ones anyway.
The most in focus…An Auggie tail x 2 or 3…beautiful tail!!
Geez, you know she (I think a she) wasn’t even moving that fast! (AND that truck is the bow hunter out on the state land…but the deer were on my land…smart deer!)
Gaah!
I kind of like this one, even if it is blurry.
Bear and I were out about 6:45 and he got all excited in the woods and was following some scent back and forth. I’m guessing the fox.
We’ll see what the night brings. It is less than 24 hours after the full moon with a moonrise just after 9 p.m. and moonset at 9:15 a.m. so a full night of moonlight and skies are clear.
***AND, I did phone my neighbor with the chickens and warn about the fox, i.e. “fox in the hen house” is NOT a good thing!
Kind of funny timing.
Earlier this week, the house was being shown by a realtor, Kristen, that lives just up the road from me. And the lookers were members of her family. They were asking me about wildlife and Bear (Bear the beardog). And did we often see bears? I said that I usually saw them or sign of them in the Spring and Fall but hadn’t seen any this year. Neither had Kristen.
So, this morning, Bear, Auggie and I had just gone out and we were all ambling about…7:15 ish a.m. The breeze was blowing toward us from the East and Bear started sniffing and doing the nose in the air thing that means “bear”! He started walking East and the nose went up again. I called him to “Stay” and he did and then I saw the bear (an actual bear). I told Bear (the beardog) “Inside” and he went. Auggie was hunting critters by the house and the bear had not even looked our way and was walking along the east property line which is what they always do – funny.
Got the camera and ran back out. You think the bears are just walking slowly but as they are big, they cover a lot of ground quickly.
So…
From about 100 yards away from the bear and 20 yards from the house which is as close as I care to go out of both safety and respect for the bear.
Same photo as above but cropped. Fuzzy. Rats.
Although the bear looks brown, no sign of a hump. The last several bears I’ve seen have been brown. I still think they are “black” or “cinnamon” bears vs grizzly, but I guess it could be a young grizzly. It was a bear, though!
If Auggie caught any bear scent, he did not show any indication or concern. The critters around the rock were pretty active – even I could hear their squeaks.
Bear was watching from the bedroom and not making a sound.
And the sun came up through a very smoky sky.
It is a privilege to see a bear moving through, being a bear and going about his or her bear business, but I sure would like to get a great photo of one of them!
