Last January while conversing on the telephone over coffee one morning I was absentmindedly looking out the kitchen window when I did a double take…had I just seen a very large white rabbit?
Look again…yep…here the rabbit comes out from under the wood stairs and begins hopping across the thin snow around the house. This was no wild rabbit so I got off the phone and out I went to see if I could catch the fella before he was hit by a car or chased down by a dog.
We contacted the neighboring town’s and made an effort to find the rabbit’s owner, but to no avail. These are still using analogue search technology...comments written on a piece of paper.
Craig’s list has no “lost and found” category. There needs to be a Google lost and found feature based on GIS which would allow entry of GIS coordinates and a search field...enter “rabbit” in the search field and all lost and found rabbits sorted by radius from your GIS location would come up. This feature would be good for lots of stuff like shopping for used cars, etc.
Actually, he (or she) was pretty friendly and I was able to coral him into the garage where he has become the neighborhood focus of youngsters. He took on the name “Hopper”. Why not? He lets Martha pet him, and he does like carrots (also cauliflower but not leeks). Heinen's even has pellet rabbit food !
The watercolor above is Martha’s portrait of Hopper, and I tell you the painting really captures Hopper as a fuzzy furry fella with long grey ears, pink eyes, and a silly black tail.
How in the world did colored eggs and bunnies become connected symbolically with the religious celebrations surrounding this time of spring?
Well anyway, Hopper’s a REAL NEO RABBIT!
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