A spring walk

[holyschist]

I went on a walk the other day from my apartment to a nearby vacant lot/prairie dog colony. I live in Colorado, in the U.S.--we're pretty solidly in spring now, which means the plants have leafed out and it's pretty nice out, except when it snows or drizzles cold rain all day or both.

I didn't see anything particularly surprising on this walk, but I did see all kinds of lovely nature. A friend pointed out that the prairie dog colony is great snake habitat, so I'm going to have to keep an eye out for snakes next time! I love snakes.

This cottontail rabbit (probably a desert cottontail, Sylvilagus audubonii) immediately dropped into this amazing imitation of a perfectly still, inedible rock when it saw us. As soon as I looked away and back, it was gone.



The whole story and more photos at my journal.