Stone Circle Nutcracker dance

Valette chuckled as the female's crisis was food. In that way Keoni really could have been her daughter. Valette looked out over the empty plaines. She knew that some prey would return but others would have bedded down for the winter. "Most of our prey, raccoons or squirrels sleep more during the winter to preserve energy. It tends to be cold and when they sleep in their warm den they use up less energy instead of being out in the cold. But the bigger prey animals are still around," she assured her.

"The bison will be mostly in this valley. I am tracking them to see if they are truly staying, they push away the snow to find grass. The deer move away from the open plains into the forest to eat the bark of the trees when they can't find enough food," she explained to the youngster. "The winter makes food scares, but that doesn't mean we don't get anything to eat. The winter is very hard for animals who eat plants. If they are weak the cold would get to them and then we can eat them without having to work for it." But that was a very ideal situation.