Cocoa Puffs

I know what you're thinking. Is this going to be another one of those long, stupid rabbit stories?

And the honest answer, I swear to God as you munch on your scone and drink your coffee, that this is not another long boring rabbit story.

I told the story about the time I mistook a rabbit turd for a Cocoa Puff and ate it and I'm not going to tell it again.

What's that? You haven't heard about the time I mistook a rabbit turd for a Cocoa Puff?

Well, it goes like this: A few years ago Olivia had this rabbit named Brownie and we used to let Brownie in the house and the rabbit would jump around the chew the covers off of books and do all sorts of crazy things and one day the rabbit was jumping around chewing on books and the kids were eating Cocoa Puffs at the same time and one spilled out of the bowl and onto the floor and for whatever reason I picked it up and ate it, only it wasn't a Cocoa Puff, it was a rabbit turd.

They look a lot alike. They do not, however, taste a lot alike. Of course I spit it out and the kids saw me do this and they thought it was great fun.

Brownie for what its worth, would later be attacked by a wild animal in our backyard and die.

But this is not another long, boring rabbit story.

This is a hare story.

While the hare and the rabbit look very similar they are not even the same species. Hares have babies that are born with fur and can run away in about an hour. Rabbits are born, um, hairless, and have to be taken care of.

Hares are also generally larger and they also, particularly in the case of the snowshoe hare, turn color in winter. How do I know this? No, I did not take Hare 101 in college.

I Googled it and the stories all said the same thing, even the one from Harvard University, confirmed the above as fact.

Two Medicine in Glacier National Park is a good place to see a snowshoe hare, if you're into hare watching. The hares right now still have some white on them but the snow melted, which makes a white bunn, er, hare, easy to spot.

On Sunday I got up at 5 a.m. and went over there and saw a hare and its body was brown but its ears were white and since their main defense is to sit still unless they absolutely have to run, I was able to make some pretty good pictures of it as it sat in the early morning sun.

I like early morning sun.

It's nice to soak in as you eat your Cocoa Puffs.