We still have a nice cover of snow … but it’s melting rapidly, and we have temps near 60 – SIXTY – in the forecast! The parched ground is soaking up the snow super-fast.
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In another note, thanks to a comment from reader TamrahJo, I remembered this pic that I took with my phone a couple of days ago while snowshoeing out to a couple of bands in the basin:
The first “shape” I saw was the big “heart.” It looks like someone drew the lines with a stick or something, but I promise you that that “someone” was NOT me, nor was there any evidence at all of another human being out there (there’s almost never any other evidence of humans hiking where I hike).
I can’t explain it, but with all the hate rampant in the world, I’d like to offer this image and what it (might) represent (to humans, anyway) as a simple antidote: From Mother Nature to the world, with love.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Love the horse for a sure. Glad there is snow melting to the e a rth. And really how did the drawing get there? Horses, bunnies, birds, pronghorn, snakes, all got together and made it!
I love that mental image! 🙂
Amen
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Today in this world – a beautiful “sign”! Just leave it at that.
I do.
Hope for more moisture! Many things have no human explanation!
Agreed. 🙂 And don’t need it! The beauty is in the wonder!
I had the same feeling yesterday out at the Refuge. No heart shape to speak of, but the steady and dependable Rocky Mountains all around me, covered with snow. The bald eagle hoping to get an unwary crane, geese, anything to eat for the love of god, ice on the ponds all of it out there just as it should be telling me everything I needed to hear. It is my Valentine, my friend, my inspiration and it grounds me (sometimes literally…ha ha). We’re getting temps near 60 too. Sigh… I love this guy’s beautiful face.
It’s all there, isn’t it? 🙂
Pretty cool snow “etchings” going on over there! Wish we could see how they were made…and by whom among our clever critters!
One of those beautiful, unexplained mysteries of nature. 🙂