Solitary Gull

Here's a closer view of the solitary gull who hung around my tractor on Friday while I was chisel-plowing. (You can click on any of these photos to enlarge them to full-screen.)

I was unaware that gulls had webbed feet......one of his is visible in the above photo.

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Wow.....he felt comfortable enough to sit down and rest a spell, even with the noisy tractor roaring by.

In the dictionary, the word gull can also mean,

"one who is easily duped; simpleton; fool". Perhaps my gull friend was a holdover from April Fool's Day!

Eventually, off he flew. Sorry for the next tipsy view; it was from inside the tractor cab.

This next photo is for anyone with a hankering to see the tail-end of a meadowlark. Sorry, I hurriedly snapped the shot when I heard his melodious song, oblivious to which direction he was facing. He's the first meadowlark I've seen this spring.

Here's how the newly-planted oat field looks this morning. Don't worry, the snow won't hurt the oat seeds, which rest comfortably several inches down in the soil. My husband echoes an old farmers' adage that oats grow best when they've been snowed on once. Hopefully, it will be only once. Its time for spring to act like spring!

I'm hoping the southern states did not experience the damaging freezes forecast to occur last night.