The clearing rests in song and shade.
It is a creature made
By old light held in soil and leaf,
By human joy and grief,
By human work,
Fidelity of sight and stroke,
By rain, by water on
The parent stone.
~ Wendell Berry
(This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems)
It seems like it’s been raining and dreary for the past couple of weeks — we even turned the heat on a couple of times. But we’ve been seeing a lot of interesting creatures outside our windows, like this baby bunny I caught with my camera. One morning I saw two opossums scrounging around in the leaf litter for food, and another time I saw a coyote trotting across the back yard.
One day when returning from grocery shopping we were very excited to find four fledgling Carolina wrens trying out their wings on the wax myrtle branches in our front yard. And those darling Carolina chickadees who nested in our birdhouse had some little ones, too. They flit about so quickly I can’t count them but there are at least three and I got to see a parent feeding one of them.
And one delightful afternoon Kat and I designed a dragon garden to fill in the unused birdbath in the front yard. 💜
The baby bunny is so cute, but I really hate when their mamas put nests in my back yard. The Monk just can’t resist chasing them … and catching them. Then I have to call the vet and worry the rest of the day, watching to be sure he’ll be okay after ingesting things he shouldn’t. Sigh. Nature can be so cruel.
It made my day when I opened the curtain to see that little bunny right outside my window. ♡ I do worry about its safety as we do have a few loose dogs in our neighborhood — the owners don’t seem to think leash rules and laws apply to them. That must be so awful for you to see and you can’t really blame Monk for doing what comes naturally to him. Sigh.
Baby bunnies are so cute, this one is adorable!
I thought so, too! So much fun to watch.
The bunny sure is cute! They are vegetarians and like to eat hay and greens. My two neighbors and I had one living in our front yards a week before Easter. I called it the Easter bunny. I have not seen it in a couple of weeks. It must have hopped along to the grass is greener yards! 😉
This one was definitely getting his share of greens! That must have been very nice to see your Easter bunny visiting for a few days — I didn’t see this one again. I hope he didn’t become a meal for the opossum(s) I’ve recently seen. It’s probably a good thing I don’t see everything that goes on out there. 😉
The baby bunny is adorable. We had a baby bunny in our yard last year that we enjoyed watching, but I haven’t seen any here this year.
It was so much fun opening the curtain to see a baby bunny right outside my window. I watched him eating his greens for the longest time.
Cuties both – the bunny and your granddaughter!