The snow is coming..

Winter is quickly approaching, and we have been working hard to construct a new well house before the first snows.

roof

The ground has begun to freeze and the frost is pushing up through the soil at night. There are still a few crickets chirping in the forest, but soon they will have all burrowed below to ground to hibernate for the winter.

cricket

And the bears are still out and looking very healthy and fat from their fall feast of acorns and berries. But, they too will begin to enter their dens to hibernate through the ice and snow of winter.

black bear