Snowy Day Mallards

Middle pic from yesterday....rest from today....both days, short walks out to the Deer House and a little bit into Bobcat Meadow...Mallard clip from Chapel Bridge...and heardheard hoo hoos both days too, but couldn't locate....light snow fall in the morning...and moderate all afternoon....light again tonight...and very wet snow....cool....mesmerizing to watch the fluffy snow come down while on the back dock at work ...like the gods above were having a pillow fight!
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A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
James Joyce
The Dead
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I send token donations and recieve token memberships from a few groups that have at heart the conservation of Nature. I sent over another token to Doctors Without Borders for the Haiti relief effort. Dont know but the best effort everyone can make is to be prepared for similar circumstance nearer home, always. So donate a bit to your own piggy bank, I'm thinking. No one knows quite what to do with a disaster this large. I sure dont, and can only furrow my brow. I like the 'without borders' bit.