A Granddaughter's Snowy Owl (poem)
A Granddaughter's Snowy Owl
In search of an obscure little ski area,
we drove along a snowy road on a dark
ridgeline in the Catskill Mountains where
snow fell constantly from gray-black skies,
as the wind blew swirling drifts above our
car wheels that made it hard to turn.
We found nothing but deep dark woods.
"Are we lost without a map," our little
Clare asked with a frown on her face.
"Not yet, not yet," we all responded.
At last we came upon a crossroad and
there we saw a sign for distant Albany,
and Clare shouted, "Look, a snowy owl!"
Sure enough a large white owl with bright
yellow eyes stared down at us from a pole,
seemingly questioning our wisdom of being in
such a place far from the rest of the human race.
Clare usually isn't very noticing of natural phenomena, but she sure was on target that day of the snowy owl! JUst a few weeks ago she noticed a pocket gopher burrying under a picnic table near Estes Park, Colorado.
Snowy Owl
Have you ever seen a snowy owl ?
Catskill Mountains
Comments
We see so much more when we travel with our wide-awake grandkids. Nice poem about a special moment. Thanks.
Dear Richard. A lovely story of getting lost in the woods. Hoo-hoot! Did you also read my Hubpages on the owl family on television? I bet your grand-daughter would adore watching this owl family in the nest. Hugs, Debby
I just went back to it and found that you read the story when first published. Bird-Watching-on-TV-Owl-Family-in-the-News-What-a-Hoot
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Thanks, Terre. Indeed, I would have never seen that owl had it not been for Clare.
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Thanks, Debby. Thanks to Clare, I now have the snowy owl on my life bird list!
What a great poem from the child's perspective. They rely on us 'getting it right' and not getting lost.
The owl was right what were you doing out in those conditions lol
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Thanks molometer. Clare certainly was more alert to nature than we were!
That is so great as a bird-watcher you have created a life list.
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Thanks, Debby. I started keeping one way back in the 50's.
How many birds have you seen? Will you be sharing with us?
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I have seen in the hundreds but I just may write up an ornithological expedition I was on in Newfoundland, Canada back in 1957 (for two weeks). I believe I still have my notes of driving across Noofy from Port aux Basques to the Argentia Peninsula near St. Johns where we observed sea cliff birds for several days.
Again a superbly written hub. Thank you.
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Thanks Hello, hello. I appreciate it.
That would be lovely. We have all written scraps and booklets of notes from seminars, trips and workshops that get stuffed onto a shelf or into a drawer never to be seen again.
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Hopefully I'll have time over the holidays to dig through my Noofy notes.
Looking forward to it. I have just written a hub from your inspiration on December 7th.
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I'll check it out, Debby. Thank you very much
I loved the unbridled rhythm and beautiful poetic narration. I loved the atmosphere and setting.
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Thank you Vinaya Ghimire, I appreciate it.
I liked it but how it ended felt sort of like a cliff hanger in a movie. Nice job though on the cool theme and how real it made me feel while reading it, it actually felt like a movie scene. Great stuff!
Voted up on many levels. Oh and nice owl there. OvO
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Thanks CloudExplorer. Have you seen my poem "Clouds"?
Great poem and love the snowy owl picture!
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Thank you Ruby H Rose, I appreciate it.
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