Timber Rattler
Nature poem
Archive | December, 2005
Wet Christmas: Looking for Wildlife Tracks Before the Rain Washes the Snow Away
I got a few minutes to write outdoors before the rain started. I took a long loop hike and found coyote, squirrel, mouse and bird tracks in slushy snow.
Vanishing Tracks: The Tracks I Made This Morning Were Melted By Afternoon
The tracks I made hiking up the mountain this morning were gone by the time I hiked down in the afternoon – a mere 6 hours later. The snow hadn’t melted; the tracks melted back into the soft snow. It was overcast the entire day, so it wasn’t the sun – just sultry spring air on what will soon be a wet Christmas.
