As I first began watching the environment and everything happening, it appeared as if nothing was really happening, it was very quiet, not much action, just a partly cloudy day with a foot and a half of snow.
Everything almost seems frozen, trees aren’t moving with any breeze, the leaves that are left on the trees are weighed down with clumps of snow. I believe everything out in the environment knows exactly what’s happening, sometimes even before it happens. I noticed a few weeks ago before some big storms came through and brought lots of now there was a lot of wind, and trees began losing leaves at a rapid pace, like they knew the snow was coming and if they didn’t get there leaves off the branch might not be able to support the weight. It was almost like a tree battlefield after the first good snow, limbs were broken; more leaves fell from the weight of the snow. Every year the same tree I’m looking at now, loses a branch, because its always the last tree to shed its leaves, you think maybe it would adapt and shed them sooner, maybe its not accustomed to our climate? I even notice the shape of a pine tree compared to an aspen, the pine has its branches pointing down, while the aspens are growing up, I hardly ever see pine branches breaking with the weight of snow, maybe that’s an adaption they acquired to cope with the snow and harsh conditions.
Its only been about 20 minutes into my observations and my thought at the beginning is gone, birds were just hiding in the beginning, now they’re all flying about looking for food and playing in the trees, sometimes I wonder how they could survive in such conditions, when some birds migrate, they just don’t seem to budge. I guess they’ve adapted a little more to the climate here up in the higher elevations .
Its interesting to think how the environment just takes care of itself, it may struggle sometimes, but it doesn’t need us here to cultivate it, or do anything for it. Birds eat seeds, and transport them, another tree grows, another bird comes years in the future and eats another seed from the tree and it gets taken somewhere else.
Oh great, the neighbors dog is out. He’s sniffing a bush for who knows what, maybe a squirrel? Or birds? Somehow he can smell it. I wish I had the nose of a dog, just to smell all sorts of things.
I can see tracks from deer, they like to hang around my house during the winter, they find good shelter in the golf course next to my house, lots of trees and cover for them, they don’t seem to mind that a golf course was put in their environment, they’ve used it to they’re advantage, fences don’t stop them, and there is still plenty of food, I have noticed that the deer are getting a little more comfortable with people, cars don’t bother them, you can almost walk right up to one. As the sun starts to go down things are getting a little quieter. Animals are getting to shelter earlier to save they’re energy. That’s how I feel about winter as well, inside the earlier the better. Biology is happening all the time, all year round, rain or shine, sun or snow. I’m glad it continues to regenerate itself and provide all that we need, its really quite amazing how it all works, everything is so synchronized and in order. Some people might take it all for granted, I hope they wouldn’t, it’s a wonderful thing we have.
