Today might be the first day of spring, but we still have about a foot of snow on the ground with the possibility of more to come tomorrow.
Yesterday we took a walk down to the old quarry to visit the local porcupine neighborhood and see who else was ambling around in the past week.
Turns out, in addition to porcupines steadily walking on well-beaten paths, a bobcat bounded around the quarry, daintily made its way across the snow crust, toes splayed wide like snowshoes, and meandered through the blackberry thickets in our woods.
And for a real treat, we found otter slide tracks around the edge of the beaver pond, complete with scat made of fish scales.
In garden news, not much is happening. We have lettuce and spinach growing under lights inside. In the hoop house, the voles happily ate all of the greens and even some of the tops of the leeks. Some chickweed is coming in… hopefully they don’t devour it all too!
The houseplants are feeling the longer days though.
Julia Blyth 