Winter in retreat
Winter recedes
At the height of the growing season, this field, which belongs to one of the farm families in the vicinity, is solid green with maturing silage corn. Last week, however, the rich bottomland dirt was buried under a foot of white. Yesterday's warmth and fog, along with, I suspect, some rapid heating by composting cow manure, peeled away some of the snowy blanket, and in short order, the exposed earth was visited by one of the many flocks of neighborhood geese. The birds were working the soil in the hopes that they'd find stray kernels of corn that popped off the ears during last September's harvesting. They didn't fly when I approached, so I guessed they were finding plenty of good things to eat.
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