down the rabbit hole

yesterday i saw a little bunny bounding. i have only ever seen this accomplished by animals such as deer, and the occasional winston or hannah. and this was a tiny bunny. i laughed aloud and rang my brother, needing someone to tell. when i hung up, i was still laughing.

today is a bank holiday. that means that even though nobody really knows what good friday is, everything gets to close. so i can't go to town and i cannot purchase foods unless i feel like walking to asda. for that to happen, i'd have to be a lot less lazy than i feel today. this means i have much time on my hands and nothing to do. which i actually enjoy. i stopped to watch the bunnies today, but people kept walking past and scaring them off. (not to mention the funny looks they were giving me for just sitting there on the side of the grass) so i walked around to the side of the woods where the people weren't tromping as much and decided to actually enter the woods. now before you get scared about me tromping around in the woods, realize this is a little wood. we're talking like less than half an acre. and its in the middle of campus. well, i found the warren. of course they scattered. i sat on a stump, and i didn't see a sign of them for at least half an hour. i did, however see two fat grey squirrels chasing each other, a couple of huge bumblebees, and a bird not much bigger than the bees. when i did start seeing bunny movement, it was farther away. they don't look like they'd be that well camouflaged,but i couldn't see them, even when i knew where they were, unless they were moving. this little area really is lovely. woods here don't usually have the undergrowth that they have in the states, so walking is pretty easy. the floor was mossy, and they only signs of people (besides all the buildings i could see through the trees) were logs that had been cut forever ago and were now covered with moss and vines. and the pink spots on the trees. sitting in this tiny wood for so long is almost enough to make one a tree-hugger. it was really lovely, and i wished at least a dozen times that i had my camera. maybe i shouldn't have done it, but i think you would have too. i got rid of the hot pink paint on two of the smooth trunks that were growing out of the roots of an old tree. it was too pretty. maybe they will still get cut down, but, if nature gets enough time, nobody will ever be able to tell there were any marks on those trunks. can't you just see me walking around campus holding a picket sign: "save the bunnies!"