Sometimes life gives you something special. It can be as simple as a day of sunshine or a decent dump of snow after weeks of concrete sullen sky. It is restoring to the soul, the sound of perfect crunchy crisp dry snow underfoot. Bright light reflected off the white surfaces. A winter wonderland instead of a dark & dank miserable Winters day. A walk in the woods becomes muffled with cushioned calm. A window into a new horizon. Hidden curves and hollows bouncing out to meet you instead of fading into the grey sludge.
Finally an appropriate occasion to get out my rabbit skin jacket - natures genius created to keep me warm with natural fibre.
An opportunity to dance and swirl and celebrate.
And build a snowman in the sticky snow.
I took a photo of the snowman and behind him in the white snowscape is Moses the Egyptian goose wandering lonely as a cloud while Miriam his partner sits quietly on their eggs high up in the old Oak tree hollow.
Moses spends all day wandering around the grass below the tree, never too far away from Miriam. She occasionally leaves the eggs to graze and stretch her legs and he is always there, waiting at the base of the tree. Every January I watch the weeks roll by with Moses wandering lonely across the park lawn.
I am happy to announce that 2 days after the big snow fall the Egyptian geese hatched 11 baby goslings. They are such ambitious parents, getting their babies in earlier than any other bird I know. Now every time I go for a walk down to the lake I see them, a big happy family bobbing along on the lake or grazing in the grass at the waters edge. Miriam has a loud distinctive call and her family of little goslings follow her in a tottering line of little webbed feet and fluff balls of cuteness with Moses always bringing up the rear guard.
January has been made up go so much more than I have mentioned but this one day of snow & the brooding Egyptian Geese family have been the most memorable events in January for me.
( Footnote: All 11 Egyptian goslings were eaten within the week by a buzzard, crows & a pair of herons.)
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