The rabbit in the back yard

First, the snow remains! It is everywhere. It is shrinking in height but not in mass. Pavement isn't showing yet in front of my house. You do need 4-wheel drive or chains on most of the side roads because they have been plowed poorly. It is beautiful to look out at the sparkling snow every morning. While I was looking out my upstairs window today I saw my resident rabbit that lives in the back yard looking for food. The snow is so deep that the animals are having difficulty finding enough to eat. The rabbit was out by my compost bin. I do put scrapes, peelings, etc. out there every few days. But it had been a while and I had a full container in the house to dump out there. I watched the rabbit eat some vegetable scrapes from the side of the bin. There wasn't much for her to eat. So, I went down stairs and put on my boots and took the leavings out to
the bin. I had lettuce, a pear and some potato peelings. I left it on the snow near the bin and then I went back inside. I do hope the rabbit finds it.

This particular rabbit has lived here in my yard for over a year. It has not had to fight for food so hard before. And too, she is in danger every time she ventures out in search of food because of the white snow she stands out. She has no camouflage now that everything is covered in snow. I hope she makes it. Last spring she had two little bunnies, they were so cute!

I am concerned about all the animals that live or visit my back yard. Food is in short supply and the snow won't melt for a very long time. I hope they survive.

If you haven't seen snow before or you haven't seen it for a long time then now is the time to visit Big Bear. You won't believe how much snow there is. We are expecting more snow this week. I don't know where we will put it but we need the moisture for our drinking water so I want it to come.

Until next time, Bonnie