It was a dark and stormy night, except it was daytime. Julie was enjoying a drive through the beautiful sunny spring scenery.

She had pulled over to help a boy scout cross the street, when through the lightly falling snow; she heard the cry of a Kestrel in distress. Ignoring her own risk, Julie plunged into the woods through the ankle deep snow to find the injured bird.

Struggling up the treacherous hillside in calf deep snow, Julie spotted the injured Kite fighting to survive the tornado-like vortexes of swirling snow and ice. As she continued on through the knee-deep snow along the side of the cliff, she could see the bird would soon exhaust itself.

Pushing forward despite the thigh deep snow and ice, Julie reached a plateau on the mountain. Resting for a moment, she saw the Red-Tailed Hawk beginning to weaken. She continued on through the waist deep snow to reach the bird.

Realizing that the bird would not cooperate unless its eyes were hooded, Julie ignored the cold and pulled off one glove. She cut off one of the fingers of the glove and using a piece of shoelace, she fastened both a hood and leg straps.

Intrepidly pushing on through the chest deep snow, she used her jacket to capture the Brown Eagle. She placed the hood and leg straps on. Turning to return to her car (all uphill, of course) Julie ignored the cold that was penetrating her finger (ring finger) until it was numb.

It was there, plowing through the neck deep snow, that she saw IT. A rare endangered species orchid, imanginarious wildii, was poking through the thin crust of snow beneath a tree. Looking up to see that the branches were heavy with snow that would crush the rare plant, Julie pulled the jacket away from the Bald Eagle, and using some handy stones, built up a shelter to protect the orchid from any snowfalls.

However, doing this disturbed the Pterodactyl, who flapped wildly and broke away from the leg straps. The incident also snapped Julie’s bare finger, which she had be using to hold the straps.

OUR HERIONE!!!