I Think It's Right Around the Corner...

I went for a walk this afternoon up around Buck Horn Lake and saw lots of promising signs that Spring is about to burst upon us...

The ferns are sending up their bright green fronds, the snow has melted from under the trees, and the lake has changed from the glistening white ice to a deep grey.  It won't be long before the inky black of the waters below start to show and then it will be 'ice out' which will be a true sign of spring.

I startled 3 white-tailed deer as I made my way around the lake.  A few minutes later another bounded across my path and into the woods.  The other day I watched a deer wade across the cove of the river.  There is definitely a healthy deer population this year. 

The chickens keep escaping from their pen to forage among the dead leaves and scratch through the flower gardens.  Raven believes her job is to herd them back into their pen.  She chases each one to the fence and waits until it flies over before going to herd another hen back to her place also.  It's so funny to watch.  If they don't go back to the fence, Raven will put her paw gently on the hen's back and look over to whomever is outside as if to say, "Please help me with this disobedient bird!"  Once all the hens are back in the pen, Raven proudly wags her tail and searches for more 'wrongs to right'.