Crash, hop. Inscriptions on flakes.

The motions of a landing, wing-folding, strutting, tip-toeing, recorded on an icy pond. Most likely a sparrow.

Snow scribing. Here are the plants at work, from last year.

5 thoughts on “Crash, hop. Inscriptions on flakes.”

april minkler February 18, 2015 at 6:25 pm

Wonderful…thanks for capturing this!

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John Salmond February 18, 2015 at 7:10 pm

so detailed, gives a different entry to the bird’s life, faintly like reading a text written by a human author gives entry to new sphere

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David George Haskell Post authorFebruary 19, 2015 at 10:43 am

Ephemeral stories, written on the paper of snow.

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5 thoughts on “Crash, hop. Inscriptions on flakes.”