February, 2005

This picture does not do justice to the Whitetail Deer that hang around the lower property. The tails are fluffy white and the deer flick them around as they run off. We try to take a camera every time we go for a walk, but forgot last month when Pauline counted 75 elk below the Main House, and recently when we spotted a Bald Eagle atop a tree down the driveway. Then there were the two moose Gary spotted about three months ago; we still see tracks and scat that suggest one or more moose are around. Two or three yellow bellied marmots live in the wood piles down the driveway — they're asleep now, but should be out next Spring. It took over a year to get a picture of "our" bear after the first sighting; perhaps we will get lucky with more pictures soon.