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the color is not right. it's deeper, more vivid. part of what i used to be able to do….edit light/dark…..not anymore. but you can use your imagination. I'd begun to worry that they were not ripening normally, but read that this is the time, on into October. All is still Well.
one of the many things i missed in the last days. Early morning, not yet 7 am and Sun is just coming over the rise here at the top of the Hill…out the Morning window, i suddenly saw 2 parallel verticle shafts of vibrant color, the color of the most ripe pomegranate, an orange/red…two vertical shafts maybe 16 "…18? just there. and then, they moved, a rocking motion and i KNEW what i was seeing, there was no doubt, could be nothing else….. Jack Rabbit. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i knew from New Mexico, how the rising sun behind Them creates this unmistakable GLOW of their ears, but never imagined here in Sierra Nevada Foothills???????? and almost as soon as i saw this, it was gone. So i did what we do, googled Jack Rabbit Butte Cnty California and sure enough…yes. Still not believing, when time ticked by on the clock, i called the Fish and Game #….Do we? i asked….yes he said. And then, every day since then, same time, day break, those EARS and here They are, casually exploring, crossing back and forth, every day a little closer, a little more Sure. Minnow is not out yet, still sleeps. Only once was Rabbit still out by the back of Sunny Ray's forest and Minnow was ,out, saw Them and ran at Them, she doesn't bark, but They have been undaunted….continuing to come. This morning….here. right out there, under the hammock swings, rising up on those incredibly LONG hind legs to sniff the swing
Why now? this is going into the 6th year and never before. Even down in the big meadow, but i read that they only move at dawn and dusk, otherwise hunker down in underbrush being a high prey resource for so many other beings who live here. Hawks Owls Fox Coyote Mountain lion . and i read that they are not a rabbit, but a Hare. And watching, holding my breath, because any slight movement from me and They vanish, i understand without effort the symbolic place Hare has taken in the stories and mythologies of humankind. Something about them is Otherworldly.
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