Posted today is another photograph I captured of
Lake Helena. In the foreground you will
see the tracks of deer and smaller animals—perhaps raccoons—stitched across the
snow where they skirted a fence to reach morning’s pink water at the edge of
the lake ice.
The water remains open due to a warm spring seeping
into the lake there.
I like how our snowy landscapes retain the
signatures of day-to-day living. The meandering
lines where mule deer cross through open hills, feeding. The endlessly circling trails of raccoons. The miniature hop-and-tail-drag of mice
softing (my own word, thank you) over the very surface of the snow between
sagebrush hideouts. My own tracks, to
which I have yet to find an end.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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