The perfect scene

[calzephyr]

I wish there was a way I could capture what's going on in my front yard accurately, but there isn't one. The wild rose bushes are a perfect shade of fire orange red, fat sparrows are gleaning what they can from the bird feeder (which I just filled yesterday) and a big wild rabbit lying down in the long grass.

When I first got home, I thought perhaps it had been killed and flung onto our lawn. Then as it flattened itself down even more, I feared maybe it was sick. Eventually he started to browse, and it was standing up and stretching - the perfect shot - but of course by the time I ran for the camera he had hunkered down again. He's been out there for over an hour.





Not a bad photo considering it was taken from behind a window :-) The wild rabbits have always had a special meaning for me since I moved here. There are so many of them, of course, but I don't know how many times I have surprised them on the side of our house, in the flowerbed, the backyard, the front yard - for whatever reason, they chose our lawn and it makes me feel like everything is all right in the world.

Comments

[nyrchicky.livejournal.com]

That bunny has eaten a lot of grass :)

We have a ton in our yard back in NJ and my Mom gets them to come really close to her and she feeds them rabbit treats.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Heheh! Yeah, I have no idea what they eat around here, but I'm sure people feed them too. They're as big as a cat. That's so sweet that your Mom can feed them, I would love that :-)

[minimalismo.livejournal.com]

bunnnnnny!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

:-) I miss the big rabbit that used to lie between the wild rose bushes. I think he was old though. He would just lie there and didn't care :-)

[theredrage.livejournal.com]

I've kind of adopted my neighbour's bunny. Somehow it keeps escaping, then hopping over to my back garden and eating all the bread I've thrown out for the birds. The kids have stopped looking for it now, as it escapes that often. I bet it's Houdini reincarnated!

It's the most laid back rabbit ever. Nothing seems to bother it at all!

It's great having wildlife around isn't it? It amuses me when tiny sparrows chase off squirrels!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I love my critters :-) We live on the edge of town, in a suburb, and it used to be quite common to see coyotes hanging around the highway. Our sparrows are big, bold and organized!

I wonder why the rabbit keeps escaping. I guess once you know life is so much better on the other side of the fence, it's hard to go back to rabbit pellets and such :-)