It was all going so nicely until it started raining tonight! Will tomorrow reveal ice-coated twigs, or slush?
We’ve barely gotten outside, but sometimes the cold just helps us be productive; Charley is working on his leafminer book (and you, too, could become a patron and obtain a copy of the first edition). Meanwhile, I have been identifying arthropods that fell in pitfall traps. And… we both took a trip to New York to learn how to dissect moth genitalia. Fascinating! Difficult. And essential for describing new species.
So, as soon as we get a new microscope and practice a whole lot more, we’ll be in business!
Okay, now on to the yard: There are greens in the hoophouse. Not a lot, but I imagine in a few weeks we might have enough to pick a salad.
There have been tons of turkeys in the yard. Here are some tracks where they’ve made canyons through the snow.
The beaver pond is very nice to visit too. We’ve seen fox and coyote tracks down there.
It feels good to go outside every day to greet the hens, and admire the snow, and leave our tracks among the animals’; and it feels good to come in and cozy up to the microscope.
Julia Blyth 
Love the pictures! I hope we can get the little ones out to see the beaver pond this spring/summer! Cozying up to the microscope will definitely be on the agenda this week. Spring will happen eventually I think–See you soon as weather is predictably without snowy travel and I finish sending in the Caucus results for our town!