But humans are not the only ones leaving tracks in the snow! Here, for example, a big bird or two seem to have been out walking in the company of two hares...
Tracks like these always make me think of a chapter in Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh and Piglet go following some tracks, which they suspect may have been made by a Woozle...
... and after yet another turn around the same bush, the two friends begin to fear that there are even more potentially dangerous animals about...
But of course all is explained when Christopher Robin turns up:
'Silly old Bear,' he said, 'what were you doing? First you went round the spinney twice by yourself, and then Piglet ran after you and you went round again together, and then you were just going round a fourth time - '
Winnie the Pooh is such a lovely book.
ReplyDeleteJanice, in spite of having no children or grandchildren, it's one that I keep returning to quite frequently... 🐾
DeleteWinter invites gentle wanderings close to home, where human paths, animal tracks, and childhood stories quietly overlap in the snow’s fleeting memory.
ReplyDeleteQuite so, Ro.
DeleteWhat a cute Pooh story! I suspect the bird and hare were making the footprints at different times. But it is such fun to look for different kinds of footprints in the snow and try to identify them.
ReplyDeleteGinny, of course they were. That's what led my thoughts to the Pooh story...
DeleteEven making a couple of footprints in the snow is enough.
ReplyDeleteCK, walking in pristine snow, making the first footprints, can be oddly satisfying ;) (I haven't done it this winter because of being careful with my knee, though.)
DeleteWe don't get snow where I live so I have never seen tracks in snow in real life.
ReplyDeleteRiver, my relationship with snow is ambivalent. Freshly fallen snow can be beautiful to look at, but it can also make life very difficult! (I was never a winter sports person myself. - Nor summer sports, for that matter...!)
DeleteLovely photos. Cute Winnie the Pooh and Piglet illustrations.
ReplyDeleteLinda, the illustrations are the original ones by E.H. Shephard from the book. (Copied by me from somehwere on the web.)
DeleteThe combination of sun on snow is one I really like - reminds me of the walk I took the other day when the sun made it finally through just before sunset!
ReplyDeleteI like looking at animal footprints in the snow. My Dad taught me about them when I was little.
Meike, I can't claim to know a lot of animal footprints, but I do recognise the hare's. Especially since I know that there are indeed at least two of them living in the neighbourhood... ;)
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