The signs of springtime are coming grudgingly in central Maine. This is a first-time blooming of a bulb planted last fall.
Bog view from the beaver dam
This is the late winter, early spring view of the beaver bog from the beaver’s primary dam site. The beavers have departed long ago but their bog lives on.
Remnants of past civilizations
Our many patrols through the backwoods reveal past histories, as Stephen Jay Gould would say, littered with “curious parts.” While his subject was evolutionary anatomy, I continually find pieces from an extensive farming community hidden away in the forest that has sprouted up since.
Springtime bog evening
After a mid-forties temperature day, the sun sets on the beaver bog. It is maple-sugar season: cold nights and warmer days.
Early spring at the bog
Into the second week of spring in the north. The sun has been more noticeable and the temperatures are warming. It is the inbetween time at the bog.
Single file on a vernal pool
On a small vernal pool that dries out by late summer during drought years, a small group of ducks call home (from 2007).
from the archive 2007
Fleet on the move
Why don’t they come any closer?
Wet snow sticks to everything
This weekend’s storm is a typical late season snow event. Mild temperatures and high humidity combine to give us heavy, wet, and sticky white stuff.
john's f-stop 
