365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Chicken If You Don't
Day 77: This one is for my botany partner Joe, a tradition we established to acknowledge any relatively substantial snowfall in western Washington: the (ideally) annual Snow Angel Contest. Now it must be said that I've been a lot colder for a lot longer than the few seconds it took to make this photo. After all, I was an alpinist in my younger years. Nevertheless, at 24 degrees, I wasn't going to make repeated tries for the best possible image. You get what you get, okay? I didn't sink in nearly as far as I'd expected to because the bottom layer has compacted after several days of being on the ground. My imprint only goes as deep as the overnight and early morning accumulation on top of a 12-16 inch base of almost-ice. We're to get quite a bit more white stuff on Thursday, so I'm asking you: are you up for the challenge? You're chicken if you don't! And don't make me up my game!
Labels:
challenge,
Crow,
Joe,
snow angel
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