Happy Groundhog Day!

 

"Woodchuck"

pencil drawing - © Bruce A. Morrison

It's Groundhog Day!  Wow did that ever get here fast!  I'd go for an early spring, but it feels really like early February here this a.m., around 10 degrees Fahrenheit out there - the sun is shining bright so I guess it'll see its shadow and we're out of luck!  Oh well, business as usual.

 "Brown Thrasher - Portrait"

color pencil drawing - © Bruce A. Morrison

I'm still working on small Bird portraits, just finishing one that was a bit trickier for me...too much small work! But I'm still happy with how it came out - a Brown Thrasher...one of our first larger songbirds returning in the spring! These are low nesters (usually in low thick brush or bushes) and found in our yard and grove all spring and summer - Great Singers! One of the Mimic-Thrushes (from the family Mimidae)...very fun to listen too all spring and summer long! 

Keep your spirits up - enjoy the winter days and look forward to spring and all it brings.  That old Woodchuck will just have to go back to bed - see him in March!

 

Groundhog Day!!

Tomorrow's Groundhog Day! I'm writing this on Sunday and It is a beaut of a day, the kind you just wish would rule the rest of winter! If any Groundhogs (Woodchucks around here) could break through the thick snow/icy crust, they'd certainly see their shadow today.

Our resident "shop" Groundhog (see the November Woodchuck Blog) wouldn't see his because he's inside. Besides he still has a door on top of his hole!


But it's fun thinking about these things in the middle of winter, and you never know - this might be the beginning of an early spring!!