shy or just playing coy

and prickly trees. mr. snow leopard plays shy or coy or whatever. I could suppose that mr. snow leopard just might be ms. snow leopard. I'm unable to verify an exact gender and gender identification is evidently a big deal these days and don't you dare to get it wrong. 'they' will cancel your ass in a New York minute. we can't be a having that now can we. and then there's the issue of bare trees. bare trees that just might be on the island of Mauritius. oh shit have they ever got themselves an environment disaster. damn Japanese oil tanker ran aground and spilled it's guts of oil all over the once pristine island of Mauritius. it's a goddamned mess and there hasn't been much reporting on that little crisis. asshole Japanese need to be made to clean the mess up and right freaking now! gawd ahmighty are we ever in a mess. we of course meaning the entire Planet. it's trump one day then Beirut the next day and then the day after all that we've got an oil spill around the island of Mauritius. judas h. priest, the fun just never ends. okay and that's about enough of a Sunday sermon. onward to the task at hand.
a shy snow leopard -

and then a bare if not prickly tree -

be well everyone and please mask up.