Months have passed us by since I last wrote my tiny blog. However, here I am once again.
A friend once said to me, “I have never known anyone to love spring as you do.” I have not forgotten her expression of wonderment, I suppose, that someone would, “drop a knee” to shoot a flower. In Nova Scotia spring seems to reluctantly “seep in”. There are rare sunny days when we throw off our jackets as well as our cares, to bask in the promise of on going warmth and sunshine. Where I live there is no cacophony of bird song rather, an occasional calling of geese and spring peepers help fill in the vacant spaces where I would once crane to catch the perfect shot of a red winged blackbird. I do confess I miss them and I miss hepaticas. I am here now so today on this (4) 20, 2020, I decided to see what I could find. Of course colts foot is strewn along the roadsides but it was the elusive woodland flowers I sought. I was delighted to find fruiting bodies on sphagnum and Usnea always catches my eye. It was the Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), which I pursued. This diminutive flower is Nova Scotia’s floral emblem. It hugs the ground so closely that I find it quite hard to see. See it I did— although only a few, and only the white variety.
I will go again to find the later bloomers and most probably will get my bloomers wet while kneeling to catch their beauty.
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April 19 snow deterred me from prowling the woods but that did not deter me from being deeply appreciative of the beauty out my back door.
Sphagnum fruiting bodies
Usnea
Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens)
