Cancelled Due to Snow

Which way is south?

Another snow storm has hit Minnesota this April. That's two in about as many weeks. Rain fell first, freezing the tops on the bird feeders. Tulips have turned a kind of sickly dark green, and the budding shrubs are coated with a crystalline shell. It would all be sort of pretty if it weren't so miserable outside.

Chip-Chip is nowhere to be seen, and the robin above probably regrets returning here from a warmer, friendlier migratory home.

Under these conditions, Chip-Chip is probably curled up and snoozing in his burrow while the wind above howls away. I'll stay inside and read the newspaper. Then after that, I might be tempted to dig my own burrow.

Much of the world is not a happy place for chipmunks. I think I'll stock up on sunflower seeds--when it stops snowing.