Cautiously inquisitive…
Cautiously inquisitive… Even when installers don’t neglect to put landscape fabric between pavers and bedding, keeping a walkway weed-free can be challenging to those of limited knee flexion: Fortunately, many such greens are of the edible (not to say delectable) variety, so otherwise indolent residents Our native (actually, re-introduced) turkeys—Meleagris gallopavo—are as fastidious as other avians hereabouts. To maintain appearance, comfort and health, they bill-groom frequently with the aid of a long and flexible neck: And even when a hygiene error occurs, they have the good taste to appear embarrassed: Poking and preening do not suffice to control […] A frog is just an egg’s way of making another egg…
So many signs indicate the onset of spring: mechanical events like the vernal equinox, human inventions like tax day or a school vacation, mutable natural rhythms that follow the particularity of each unique pass around the sun. Of these, some are triggered by […] With most of last year’s edibles stripped bare, new seeds months away and bugs of all kinds mostly still buried, submerged or otherwise hidden, it’s slim pickin’s for big eaters.
The stream is shrunk – the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill. Now ‘neath his dam the fawn may see, The lean Pack-wolf as cowed […] “I say, Holmes, whatever do you suppose left such odd impressions in the snow over there? “Odd, my dear Watson? I should say, rather, exactly what would be expected from a female circus dog with one lame trotter, walking erect, bearing on her shoulders a juvenile bonobo in a mauve linsey-woolsey cape, carrying in […] Hawk (Cooper’s? Sharp-shinned?) chases a red squirrel under an old potting shed, then inside through a gap in the floor. Forgetting how it got there, or just seeking the closest light, it flutters in panic until the noise attracts someone who can open the door. Eat hearty and dress warm… This mole and flying squirrel were apparently unable to keep up with the chill; the camera found them before some other hungry bird or beast happened along. Memento mori. […] “Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called by the Masai “Ngàje Ngài,” the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard […] Some shut up the house for winter; others just let it blow away and rebuild in spring from scattered bits.
When trees are pollarded, dense growth of small branches creates a natural picket fence:
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