We have been enjoying some great weather this past week. With that gift has come the ability to get out in the yard. While I was cleaning up the new native garden bed by the road, I found this maple seedling pushing its way out of the seed coat. I couldn’t help but write a little poem about it.
I also noticed the leaves on the trees starting to burst open and wrote about that earlier this week. It’s a great time of year to take in all the changes going on in the natural world right now.
With spring weather, we can appreciate some glorious sunsets over the lake. Here are some shots from Tuesday night, along with a video clip in which you can hear the frogs.
Frogs were great fodder for my writer’s circle students years ago. My OLW for this year is serenity. The lake, with its soothing sights and sounds, gives me that.
We’ve also been taking walks the woods too. My husband always goes with the dog but I’ve been trying to join him after lunch. I find the woods very soothing as well. It looks like the crows are stealing turkey eggs and we’re finding them broken all over the trail.
I’ve yet to find any fungi yet but I’ll keep looking.
We lost a huge hemlock tree in a late winter storm, and had an arborist we know come to cut it into logs. Hemlock is a species of tree the varnished reshi grow on. I’m going to keep a lookout for that and more Bear’s Head Tooth.
Lastly, while I rarely write political posts, I did this week on Medium. Here is the friend link:
Today’s round-up is hosted by Sarah Grace Tuttle on her same-named blog,
Thanks for hosting, Sarah!
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