March has had several snow storms bringing in at least a foot of snow each time; Robin and I have kept up with snowshoeing through each storm. Unfortunately all of the snow storms either occurred during a work day or at night so we have not been able to snowshoe during a storm which is something I have wanted to experience again; there’s a different feeling in the air when you’re in the woods while snow is falling, sometimes so quiet that you can hear the flakes landing on top of old snow, the creaking and cracking of tree branches trying to bare the additional load.
Normally whenever mom is scheduled to visit from Virginia during the winter her flight is delayed however this year it was not; in fact it was a few hours early. I picked her up from BIA late in the evening; she stayed at our apartment from Thursday to Sunday morning and then came back later in the week. We went for a walk on the Bangor Trails; the weather was in the 40’s. We walked for about a mile in search of the Great Horned Owl but were not able to spot it; I read in the paper that people have been attacked while walking and skiing the various trails. I have not yet photographed an Owl and is something that I’d like to spot in the wild.
Later in the week we bowled at Brewer/Bangor Bowling alley; none of us knew the proper method of keeping score, so whoever knocked down the most pins won. Mom knocked down 74, I knocked down 55 and Robin knocked down 54. I treated us to dinner at Governor’s before mom was scheduled to fly out. We didn’t get to do a lot but we had a good time while mom visited.
