This morning we got the worst winter storm (so far) this year - and it's the fourth of May! Yesterday there was green grass and bushes tentatively unfurling little green leaves, birds singing and flying around, and today it's a total whiteout. Soggy, heavy snow everywhere and the wind blowing like a hurricane. The power went out for a few minutes this morning. I went outside to help my Dad get on his bus (probably not the best idea, but he got to his destination okay), and I couldn't even breathe. The wind was blowing so hard that it became diffuse and I couldn't get enough air into my lungs, and after five minutes I was just coated in snow.
And the worst thing is there's this cute little bunny that's been showing up in the garden for the last couple of weeks, and it's out there right now in the snow. It's made a little burrow for itself out of the branches of a bush and some long grass and by digging in the snow, and it's just sitting out there with its eyes closed trying to tough out the storm. I've been watching it from the kitchen window, trying to think of what I can do to help, but it's a wild animal. If I went out there it would just run away and lose the minimal protection of the burrow, so all I can do is watch and hope it gets through all right. Sometimes I get worried because it hasn't moved for awhile, but then it will twitch its ears or rub its legs and knock off the encrustation of snow. I guess it'll be okay.
Now it's my turn to go outside and do the grocery shopping. Time to break out the winter coat.
EDIT 1:
I'm back for the moment. The wind petered out after 12:30, and it hasn't been too bad after that. Just wet and cold. The rabbit is still in his emergency burrow and shows no sign of coming out, but he seems to be okay. I guess that's how they've survived for millions of years: when bad weather hits, find the best shelter you can and dig in.
EDIT 2:
The rabbit is gone now. I think it left sometime around sunset yesterday, but I'm not sure. The strange thing is that it left no trace of itself behind. There's smooth white snow all around the little grassy hole it made, but no tracks or marks whatsoever. Was this some kind of ninja bunny? I don't know.
