First Signs of Spring
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Today came the first whiffs of spring, and this led me to venture into our front and backyard to see what’s going on.
I saw a caterpillar in brown and black colors in hasty motion but had left my cell phone inside.
What you see next is recorded after I went back into the house to equip myself better.
Carefully stepping from the wet lawn into the thin remaining snow
The first shoots of daffodil leaves cast long shadows
I wondered where the huge circular areas free of snow come from, but then I realized that some line up in a faint zigzag, so this is the explanation: each imprint in a track of an animal melts faster than the surrounding snow, until it reaches the very bottom, and then the exposed soil or grass absorbs heat from the sun much quicker than the snow, and causes the rims to melt very fast, so that the initially small hole expands rapidly
Oops, I found a folded dollar bill in the snow, and when I opened it to smooth it, it fell apart, brittle as it was from the exposure to the elements hostile to finance and politics, splitting good old George Washington in half. I then draped the two pieces in approximate juxtaposition on the lip of the receding snow to look at it once more. Tomorrow I’m sure the two pieces are gone
This is the first of two pictures of poop. It is one is of the finest poopery of local deer
and this one is from some some animal with much larger caliber of the behind – I expect suggestions by experts
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