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Friday, January 16, 2009

the creek flows on...



At Black Creek Jan 11 around 3:00 -- heading toward sunset. Went down by the creek side -- ice reaching out from the banks, open in the middle, chunks of snow & ice drifting downstream, catching on ice banks. Tracks on the ice edge -- too far down the bank to i.d. Four doves in a tree flew off when I noticed them.







Found a little nest full of snow -- artifact of summer.


















Farther on, found a snow angel by the trail



















...looks like a dog ran through it. So, does my buckthorn have thorns? Yeah, puny ones maybe, a fraction of the size of the buds:




















You call those thorns? Check out the Hawthorn over here:



















... now those are thorns.

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