Looking for the crack in winter's wall

Alanagh, Molly and I decided to go out today to see if we could find a crack in winter’s rock hard wall. We found only hairline fractures: The flower buds on apple and maple trees are beginning to grow with the promise  of spring to come. No Red Wing Black birds yet although we have seen robins. The  ice is being pushed back  little further where the water runs swiftly. Come on! Bring it on spring! you are two days old for heaven’s sake.

Apple flower buds

Maple flower buds

Fat black duck with sleek white mature Trumpeter swans on the ice at the Narrows

Immature Trumpeter swans

Red squirrel I just barely caught. Geepers they are fast little creatures!

The ever lovely deer I could watch for hours if they let me

Starlings on roadside….. honestly the only really kindly thought I have about these guys is the beauty of the iridescence on their wings