She
was just out for a routine morning walk along the road by the river…
…when
suddenly a Black Rabbit ran close by her.
There
was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did she at first think it
so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say, 'Oh dear! Oh
dear! I shall be late!' But then she blamed that bit of nonsense on the NPR
radio station she was listening to and removed her headphones.
She walked
quietly toward the big Black Rabbit, and watched it munching on the fresh green
leaves of the nearby shrubs.
It
moved a little out of sight and she thought about following it when she
remembered something she’d heard a long time ago.
“If you go chasing rabbits, you
know you're going to fall.”
She
saw no caterpillar, large chessmen, or even a dormouse. The only other creature about was a Canada
goose swimming away down the river.
There
WERE mushrooms but she knew she hadn’t had even a nibble of them.
She
watched the Black Rabbit disappear into the darkness of the woods, reconsidered
following it and walked on toward home to find something she could feed her
head.
8 comments:
Oh good thing not to follow the rabbit Alice got into some big trouble and it could happen again. Nice shots. Hug B
My first thought was how unusual, a wild black rabbit. Not that uncommon, it seems on checking it up. But, good catch.
Never seen a black one in the wild.
And the mushrooms that mother gives you don't do anything at all...
I haven't seen any wild black rabbits around here...we just have 'jacks' and 'cotton tails'.
You have to be one of the most creative women I know. I'm glad you didn't nibble the mushroom.
That black rabbit looks very much like someone's former pet. The body doesn't look like a cottontail much. Either way, it looks to be holding its own just fine.
Carla: I think you're right. Somebody's pet.
What a cute post. A black rabbit, what a neat color...ours are all brown or gray.
Linda
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