Wintry Kisses

Snow blankets the tame prairie in preparation for winter, or the Winter Solstice when daylight yields to darkness, then slowly blooms the Light toward spring's awakening. Small flurries of snowflakes whirl toward the white blanket amid the teensy dust-like flakes falling steadily. A blanket of moisture for the land, a blanket spread over the smallest creatures. The Kougar has left lots of seed plants standing for the birdies. Unfortunately for the squirrels the black walnuts were hardly in existence this year due to a late freeze in Spring.
Truth spoken with a soft paw, the Kougar is in a black mood. Perhaps she misses the sun's brilliant white-yellow face. Or maybe it is her window-view on our current world troubles. Yes, those immortal words of wisdom ring through her little sinus-swollen head. Don't watch tv news if it depresses you. Don't look at the internet news stories if you don't want all the chicken littles telling you the sky is falling upon your furry tawny head -- never mind if it actually is falling. Yes, go play ostrich, stick your head in the fake beach sand of a virtual game. Never mind if moi is silently prowling for a meal and finds you helplessly stuck in the sand, or lost in the happy over-thrill world of a virtual game. You can't see her. Since the Kougar is not in the virtual game. Yes, she pounces, and it's all over -- you head off to the light of the Other Side.
However, Big Kittie Lovers, most claw-likely, it is that warning sense just before the tsunami arrives, the sense used by the elephants and other animals, who ran to safety ahead of the giant devastating tide.
However, where is safety? These days? Who is safe these days? The Kougar does not feel safe, despite her sharp claws and fangs. Except in the embrace of the Divine. In the ever-embrace of the Mother Earth, and the Mother Bast.
Meanwhile, black mood aside, she will enjoy her blowing-snow wintry world -- and be glad she doesn't have to stalk through the cold night for her dinner.

Wintry kisses from the Kougar....