Blood on the saddle?
Mar. 10th, 2005 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyBlood drops on the ski trail this afternoon. Didn't seem to be part of paw-prints, like a dog or coyote with a split pad. Could be a deer -- they sometimes get cuts on their legs when they break through crusted ice or snow. Or one of those coyotes may have got lucky with the squirrels. Add one more to the multitudinous mysteries of life.
Parallel little boink-boink prints stitching across the snow, one with tail-marks and one without. The tail would mean a deer mouse. Since I saw this in semi-woods, the tailless prints likely track a shrew rather than a meadow vole.
Speaking of shrews -- it's probably rude of me to keep calling my female lead that, but I think of GHOST POINT as "The Taming of the Shrew meets Beowulf." And she's rude right back, so karmic balance gets maintained. Anyway, she got her 500+ words of fame this morning, so she can damn well keep her mouth shut.
4 miles, 52 minutes.
Parallel little boink-boink prints stitching across the snow, one with tail-marks and one without. The tail would mean a deer mouse. Since I saw this in semi-woods, the tailless prints likely track a shrew rather than a meadow vole.
Speaking of shrews -- it's probably rude of me to keep calling my female lead that, but I think of GHOST POINT as "The Taming of the Shrew meets Beowulf." And she's rude right back, so karmic balance gets maintained. Anyway, she got her 500+ words of fame this morning, so she can damn well keep her mouth shut.
4 miles, 52 minutes.
