Normal colors have returned

The pond has been frozen for several days.

Did I mention that it snowed yesterday morning?

Christmas Day

Cold winds for much of the day

The pond is beautiful this afternoon

Perfect Weather

Very little color is left in the landscape, but what does surface is incredibly intense.

Spring will be nice

I went out to take pictures of the pond just as the large bird with long legs, huge wings, and a long sharp bill (Bill calls it a crane and I call it a great blue heron) was landing for the night, so I didn't bother him. It's neat that he comes here nearly every night, but where does he go during the day? What does he do? He is a near shore, shallow water feeder so he's not going out to hunt on the prairies. If he goes to another pond to feed, what makes this a better place to sleep.

Maybe I'm assuming the wrong thing. Since herons should be just traveling through on their way to the Texas coast for the winter maybe the same one isn't coming back. Maybe it's a different one every night.

Interesting Day

The gopher may have moved but not from anything I did to him. I guess there was just nothing else to tear up.

What a cold day.

I spent time here today

Lower 30's all day

Almost an inch of rain over the past two days

The clouds cleared off early this morning, but they have started to build again and the wind is getting up.

The gopher is still destroying the berm

so I mainly look up during the daytime.