Spring in Maine is typically a transition. A group of ducks adjust to the realities by sunning themselves on an ice field near Cobbosseecontee Lake, Maine.
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Mallards cruising the creek
A pair of mallards cruise the flooded creek near our house earlier this week.
Frozen stream edges
Cold stream running
Our streams are running full despite nine degrees temperatures and a biting wind
A lion in March
Our first Saturday in March has twenty m.p.h. winds and a temperature of ten (F); the proverbial March lion walks among us and leaves long shadows.
Leaves that don’t fall 2
Leaves that don’t fall 1
Our backwoods have a healthy distribution of beech trees (I used to think these were aspen trees) that keep their leaves as long as possible. On cloudy days they brighten our walks and talk to us on quiet days as the winds wrestle with their leaves.
Tracks of snow
A busy route along the snow machine trail in our back woods reveals the passage of turkeys (usually a dozen or more at a time), deer, and a curious one which could be dog, fox, or what?
Lonely tree trunks along the edge
Tree stumps and long shadows on a winter’s day along the edge of the bog
Winter moss
On the edge of the bog created by a gang of beavers years ago, there are mostly dead trees supporting the full range of life.
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