Bike bunny update

Bunny at roughly 12:45 p.m.

 

West Seattle has seen a serious jump in the wild rabbit population over the last few years, and Scott has noticed that our front yard is increasingly popular with the adorable little no-longer-rodents-but-rather-Lagomorpha-because-they-got-a-good-publicist. This morning I very carefully crept out to get a photo of this particularly attractive creature, using the long lens on my Canon which so rarely gets out any more. Then we decided it was a good day for a bike ride to Fresh Flours so Scott shifted the bikes out of the garage, not far from where this rabbit was sitting. The above isn't the very careful long-shot photo; it was taken with my cell phone on a slight zoom setting while in the driveway. 

 We biked to Fresh Flours. We sat on their lovely patio and had pastry and hot drinks and admired the frolicking house sparrows who, for the most part, were enjoying a natural diet of blown Spanish lavender and whatever they could kick up in the leaves. We biked home again, stopping en route at an alley sale where I picked up a juicer large enough for grapefruit and a vintage butter keeper though it seems doubtful we will ever have vintage butter. It was a delightful way to idle away an increasingly sunny Saturday afternoon.

Yes, I just gave away several boxes of kitchen clutter; what of it?

The total ride was just over ten miles, bringing my yearly total to still a bit under 1,200 miles.

 

Hey,"transport trips" has replaced "calories burned." Interesting.

 

What with one thing and another, we were away for close to three hours. But what did I see as I glanced over while coasting down the driveway?

Rabbit, turned around but pretty much in the same spot as earlier.

The rabbits seem uninterested in the carrots and other vegetables growing in the bed just behind where this one is resting in the shade so we are happy to have them in place of last year's wasps.