3.22.14 One Last Tick-less Romp On the Field

      Out we went, bouncing one year old Shepherd Danto Fanto and I, 

late this afternoon, to run about on the conservation field and toss balls

 for a little big-muscle boy workout. 

      Looking up, a small group of vivid pink clouds passed quickly by....

Gone before you could blink.

     Playing, running, leaping, the 280• view so lovely, and soon to be gone, as trees burst into buds and small blossoms and seed let's and then those fragile tender new leaves.
As the snow shrinks, all the mouse tunnels are revealed, winding their way across the land.
Same powder puff low lying clouds hid the Peace Pagoda... the sun blazes its way into evening,
and a whole new crop of avian arrivals hunker down for a deeply restorative night's sleep.
Happy Spring, everyone!

But at the same time they were rushing past, a flock of Wild Geese flew by,

 and then turned about-maybe catching sight of the Connecticut River's  outwaters 

as a safe and belly filling rest stop for the night. 

The grasses are beginning to show through the snow with these 50• sunny 

snow-melting days, and beneath the snow in any grass that 

is not short cut lawn around here lives very Sick Ticks. 

And Invisible Nymphs. So don't pretend you can wear white 

and do a tick check and find. 'Em and pick'em off. 

Because you really can't see them. They live in the grasses and

the woodlands that are soggy. Take Care. 

Playing, running, leaping, the 280• view so lovely, and soon to be gone, 

as trees burst into buds and small blossoms and seedlets 

and then those fragile tender new leaves. 
As the snow shrinks, all the mouse tunnels are revealed, 

winding their way across the land. 

Same powder puff low lying clouds hid the Peace Pagoda... 

the sun blazes its way into evening, 
and a whole new crop of avian arrivals hunker down

 for a deeply restorative night's sleep. 

Happy Spring, everyone!

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