After a mid-forties temperature day, the sun sets on the beaver bog. It is maple-sugar season: cold nights and warmer days.
bogs
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.
Old tracks, old snow
Late summer in the bog
Wild flowers continue to blossom in the bog while the ferns start to dry out and turn brown in the Maine woods. We can tell autumn is slowly approaching.
Lilies in the bog
From a summer in the past, lilies in the bog at the Smithfield Plantation
Cat-tail garden
Late spring afternoon at the bog
Bogs are curious mixtures of life and death; greens and browns reflect the reality.
Blackbird at the bog
Nothing fancy this week: a solitary blackbird scans the bog for a late afternoon snack
Fern leaves blossom
A fern begins to reveal its leaves in the post fiddle-head stage
Beaver bog at the start of summer
john's f-stop 