The April ice storm was hard on the yard trees. Gordy Ebnet rose high and higher to trim damaged branches. May 14, 2019 Gail Batt The April ice storm was hard on the yard trees. Gordy Ebnet rose high and higher to trim damaged branches. The eye of a mallard hen. I came out of a Barnes & Noble store in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and saw this nesting mallard. This mallard is nesting in a planter outside a busy bookstore. I hope she wasn’t the one smoking the cigarettes. Rocky Raccoon checked into his room. This raccoon is no Rocky. It checks into my bird feeders at dusk.