Mopsy came today

I did not have visits from rabbits for 9 days.  There was a lot of rain, so maybe most of them were hiding in burrows.  I missed them, but one cannot live for rabbits alone!  I have grandchildren to see, tasks to do, and rabbit visits are a luxury.

But today there came a rather bedraggled rabbit whom I named Mopsy.   Mopsy seemed listless, but she ate the grass and sat huddled on the wet meadow.  I expected she would leave when it started to rain heavily, but I saw her, a small forlorn being, almost flattened into the area under the biggest piñon tree.  She was out of the rain there, so I thought she might stay.  In my mind I thanked her for coming to be my friend, and most of my days are lonely.  And I thought, probably Mopsy is lonely too.

Later I looked out at the meadow and she was gone.

One strange thing about Mopsy's visit is that it was simultaneous with some strutting big birds, which did not seem to bother her.  If they were crows, they were not all black as crows are, but had grey rings around their collars.  They walked like crows and sounded like crows, though.

Mopsy ignored the birds as if she were in a trance, not scared,  She only hopped once.