SUNNYOUR THOUGHTS TURN AGAIN to Sunny Rupnow. We heard her name mentioned today in reference to the story, now a legend, of how she once asked a farmer 'up north' if he intended to waste a 'perfectly good snake' - meaning, she would love to have it and cook it up back at the cabin.
The farmer, a neighbor, said Sunny surely could have it. He was just throwing it over the barb wire so the raptors could see it better. Sunny peeled the dead creature and we had pine snake for supper that night. The owls were left to other devices.
Sunny was a potter, sculptor, sketcher, watercolorist, finder of edibles in the woods, devoted gardner, arborist, magician of the kitchen, protector of stray animals...............etc.
