Fiddleheads

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
~~Alan Watts

Today I found some fiddleheads back by the brook.

 

 

Fiddleheads push their way up through bit and pieces of leaves and stems on the forest floor. The forest is awakening, calling out for spring.

Chickadee

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

 ~~Langston Hughes

 

This was the first quote I came across in my search for bird quotes for this post. Oddly, the quote has special meaning for me. It fits in perfectly with the young adult novel I've just now declared completed. Hopefully it's a good sign.

Oh Deer!

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” ----Ellen DeGeneres

I shot these deer (with my camera) outside Bridgewater one night on our way back home to Dalhousie. There were eleven deer altogether nibbling away on the new spring grass. 

 

Ode to the Mayflower

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.  ~Terri Guillemets

While walking through a wooded area, clusters of Mayflowers revealed themselves today on a sunny knoll. Being the first wildflower to bloom in these parts many people consider them one of the first true signs of spring.

Silence

 See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.~~ Mother Theresa

Shy moon peeking through the treetops during the middle of the day in silence; unobserved. How many souls will you touch when evening comes?

In a Pink Mood

Moody and withdrawn, the lake unites a haunting loveliness to a raw desolateness. ~~ Dale Morgan

 

Evening approaches on Black Duck Lake. The remnants of winter watches from a distance. Ice dwindles a little day-by- day until it disappears from sight. Today, the ice is gone.

A Touch of Nature

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
--William Shakespeare

Enjoy this one small touch...

The Squirrel's Heart

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. -- George Eliot

This little guy lives next door to Borden's in the Woods. He's one customer who knows his peanuts.

Borden's in the Woods

Any chance we could get a Woodsman-related post? I used to love that place (I've maybe mentioned it once or twice over the years).---Shawn Keddy

I figure when a fellow Nova Scotian, living in Korea, asks for a specific post they're darn well entitled to it. This post is for you, Shawn.

  Although the name has changed it will always be known as the Woodsman to some. 

The Woodsman has long since been transformed into "Borden's in the Woods,"complete with gas pumps, a laundromat and a community room for people to gather and chat. After several years without a store in the community we consider ourselves very fortunate.

I have a suspicion that this is one customer who keeps on coming back. I'm not quite sure what catagory he falls under. FYI this little guy will be making his debut appearance on my blog next time so make sure to check back.

Spring?

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Sibert Cather

Since the arrival of this early spring snowstorm we have been feeding the robins apples.

 

 

 Winter is getting to be a bit old and shabby. Nothing this fresh snowfall can improve. What we need now is sunshine.