First Snow

 

First snow

and

not the last.

Ducks Have Returned

It snowed 5 inches, just enough to make
ground foraging a challenge.  
Gary went outside with the old snow blower
to clean the driveway
of the first snow accumulation this year. 
Then...

 suddenly ducks started landing

in the neighbour's yard

and waddling through the gaps

in the fences

into our yard. 

We hadn't seen them before this.

They milled around in the yard,

digging into the snow

and looking up the yard at Gary,

until he stopped blowing the driveway

and fetched them some cracked corn.

Is it possible...

that these are the same ducks as last year?

And that they recognized Gary, in his old blue yard-jacket,

as the same friendly fellow who fed them all last winter?

All photos are mine.

First Snowfall

BEFORE

BEGINNING

DURING

LATER

EVENING

NEXT MORNING

All images are mine.