Mud Between Their Toes

Spring-like things are beginning to happen after several weeks of above average temperatures. The leaves of the first wildflowers are green and growing. The birds are more active and more vociferous. The raccoons have come out and felt mud between their toes.

There were two nuthatches at least, talking to each other. One hung with his head down on a large pitch pine, pecking the bark for a long time,—leaden blue above, with a black cap and white breast. It uttered almost constantly a faint but sharp quivet or creak, difficult to trace home, which appeared to be answered by a baser and louder gnah gnah from the other.
– Henry David Thoreau, from The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (February 14, 1854)

Posted on February 15, 2017 03:45 AM by scottking