The Muskrat is back
Fuzzy out-of-focus photo taken by me (I’m an artist, not a photographer) of the return of the muskrat to the cove on our lake. After yesterday’s snow melted there is about 20′ of open water along the shore, the rest of the lake is still locked in ice. This is the first sighting of the resident muskrat, actually I think he mated because TWO muskrats were feeding along the shore together. I tried to sneak up on them to get a photo, but they both quickly dove under water and I only caught this bad shot just before this one disappeared. Now, if I were the photographer that my son Ron is, I’d set up a blind and wait hours using a tripod and get clear, crisp, close-up shots of both of them. I don’t have that kind of patience, that’s why I paint!
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska landscape artist
