Here you see the first light Tuesday finding some of our higher treetops. While watching this from a bedroom window, I happened to look down to check the condition of our driveway. There stood a small doe, calmly watching me and nicely completing the picture.
She stayed long enough for me to take this image with my phone, then walked gracefully into the woods. That’s when she lost her poise: many drifts could not hold her weight and she had to continue her morning rounds plunging and stomping every few feet.
I’ve had my own ungraceful trouble with those drifts in the past few days; they give us old men good cardio workouts, but they sometimes are hiding ice:
Overnight and morning rain today have diminished the snow greatly and wiped our driveway clear. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 24 [deer] and 25 [woods], 2023.)