I saw an ermine last weekend. Rita and I were on our way to the commissary. The ermine ran across the road and into a field, so I suppose it may have been its way to the ermine commissary. Rita didn't see it because I was so flabbergasted I couldn't get a word out in time. I have seen ermine stoles in paintings but never a live ermine in its white winter coat. It's interesting that even around here, where it doesn't snow much, they turn white in the winter. And it was really white! I don't know how it stays that clean, because it had rained every day for 10 days and all the fields are either mud or muddy water.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Wildlife
I saw an ermine last weekend. Rita and I were on our way to the commissary. The ermine ran across the road and into a field, so I suppose it may have been its way to the ermine commissary. Rita didn't see it because I was so flabbergasted I couldn't get a word out in time. I have seen ermine stoles in paintings but never a live ermine in its white winter coat. It's interesting that even around here, where it doesn't snow much, they turn white in the winter. And it was really white! I don't know how it stays that clean, because it had rained every day for 10 days and all the fields are either mud or muddy water.
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cathy and i saw a dead white animal on the side of the road and i told her about this post and she suggested that what we saw was an ermine. i doubted that was the case.
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