Back to Normal April 17, 2014

I was beginning to despair that the wildlife at Almost Pi had simply disappeared.  The drought had lasted so long, and I hadn’t seen a bobcat, an egret, or even a gopher in ages.  But when I arrived today, a heron flew into the green pasture as if to reassure me that all was well with the ecosystem.  By mid-afternoon a family of deer leapt through the grass, now almost as tall as they are.   Birds of all sorts and sizes, from the tiny hummingbird who seemed keen to explore the corners of windows, through a pair of goldfinches who lingered by the rosebush and irises, to vultures who were enraptured by the neighboring field, brightened my day.