Woodchuck Day 2013

Woodchuck Day

2.2.2013

 

 Vermonters head into

6 more weeks of

winter,

no matter

what the woodchuck does.

 

It heralds a point,

after the middle of

winter,

but it seems like

more than

half a winter to go.

(the real woodchucks burrowed up in a hole somewhere)

 

This winter up and down

temperature wise,

overall milder than some,

I do recall the blizzard of

Woodchuck day past.

 

Part of me was sad

when the old woodchuck

 up back

must have succumbed to

 nature's forces.

 

He looked like a big old dog

and he confined himself

to that little spot up back

preferring a patch of clover

to garden vegetables.

I thought he would stray down to our garden

but he stayed right up there.

I would look out the window and he never saw me,

They are nearly blind you know.

 

Some Vermonters choose

to celebrate

Woodchucks

instead of

Ground Hogs,

and after knowing our

woodchuck from a distance,

over successive summers,

I now understand.