This morning we were awoken by loud sheep bawling and both of us quickly ran outside to find two ewes in an uproar and no lamb nor lamb sounds to be heard and that is a very bad thing. We found the lamb disemboweled under the pear tree. A wildlife biologist who came over said it was a lion, not the bear we had heard was in the neighborhood and taking chickens.
A committee of vultures has spent the day in and around the carcass and pear tree in a dark sad scene on the farm.
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| Douglas Iris |
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| Clintonia |
At this afternoon's forest walk the undergrowth was alive with spring flowers, fairy bells, oxalis, iris, clintonia and I saw my first fetid adder's tongue planting its seed into the ground beside it.
Nature takes and rewards, death and beauty.
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