I had withdrawn to the comfort of
the house for several days because it was SO COLD, but I was anxious to get outside again. The air temperatures warmed a bit today, so I took the opportunity to take a quick walk down to the pond.
The pond displayed a bit of ice around its edges. The cold temperatures, teens and twenties, of the past few days had been enough to begin this transformation from liquid water to its solid form.
The puppies licked
where they normally lap. Sammy and
Snowball were curious. They edged
further out onto the thin ice. I could
hear the cracking. Suddenly, Snowball
fell, head first, through the somewhat solid layer into the water below. He quickly retreated to firm ground with
concern. ‘What just happened to me?’ was
evident in his facial expression.
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| SPLASH!!! |
I just had to
chuckle.
Unbeknownst to me, our
resident heron was hiding in the brown cattail thicket during our pond visit. He
eventually gave up his hiding and flew grandly up into the air and away from
our direction.
I wondered what made
that heron remain at the pond so long today, especially since we were present,
when in the past he always flew away upon our immediate arrival.
Hmmm…I must have had
that same quizzical look upon my face that Snowball had revealed earlier.
Nature keeps us all
guessing which, in turn, keeps life very fascinating.
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