Desperately Seeking Signs of Spring

This winter I've seen far too much of this:

So it was almost like this unknown thing had appeared in the sky yesterday, and the day before, when it was actually sunny for a change. But just to make sure I wasn't going to get all completely happy or anything it was also cold as ...well, you know.

Seems I wasn't the only creature seeking sunshine. I noticed quite a few tracks to tell me that other animals had been about.

Here is the sign of the rabbit:

Note that it is beside the track of the automobilus domesticus of the Honda family, species "Odyssey". And, below, the rabbit is perhaps late, late, late for a very important date.


Triple tracks below! The right hand track is the domestic feline "Marshmallow" while the left track is perhaps a fox, and the track crossing horizontally is a small rodent, I think.

And then I got all happy when I saw signs that the beavers had been out. Perhaps they'd been sunning themselves on top of their lodge whilst I was out forraging at the supermarket.

See their trails up to and on top of that bump? It's a snow covered lodge, trust me. And then it looks like they went on some sort of frolick!?!? Check out this trail:

Wish I could've seen what made them do this:

Or maybe it wasn't the beavers at all. Maybe it's like those crop circles...we were visited by aliens and it's, like, a message:
ZA!
(Translation: "We. Were. Here. Nah. Nyah. Nah. Nah. Nah. Nah.")

Obviously you can see what lack of sunlight can do to a person. ZA!