The Owl and the Rabbit

What the winter landscape tells about about our garden, the cycles of life and who is feeding at the compost pile.

A week ago, I followed fox tracks in my backyard, tiny paw prints that led straight through the kitchen garden, behind the garden shed, and into the woods. It had snowed the night before, and as I followed these tracks, I could see a whole scenario unfolding in the snow during the night. There were squirrel prints near the compost pile, rabbits circling…