• joy - juice - pressing in - sit spot - Spring

    Spring

    “What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning…” Gerard Manley Hopkins If the old adage is anything to go by: “Ash before oak, we’re in for a soak; Oak before ash we’re in for a splash” then it looks…

  • lichen - observations - sit spot - species

    More lichen’s

    Went for a very early morning walk, before the sun was up. The sunrise was a rapid intense pink and was greeted by a similar intensification of bird song at Fox Corner Community Wildlife Area.  There were geese honking in the darkness upon the pond just before this sunrise. I…