It is late afternoon almost one week since I sent you "the spinnings". I am sleepy now although in the scheme of things it matters not. Last night I could not fall asleep until after 2:00 a.m. and I knew then, there would be no sunrise shots. Molly and I got up at about eight-thirty and while she had her morning repast I ate peanut butter and banana on toast but not until after coffee had warmed me to the over cast day. I suppose all that is an aside and may not be relevant but suffice to say I was not enthusiastically bounding off to one beach or another with my Molly. We decided instead to walk the trails and stalk spring flowers. Now Nova Scotia has us captivated with her dense black spruce forests, spotted here and there with a deciduous tree. We knew it would be a different palate than the hardwood forests of ON where once we sought the perfect shot of Trilliums, Hepaticas, Blood- Roots, Jack-in the Pulpits and all their springtime neighbours. What we didn’t know was the breath taking beauty of indigenous Rhododendron, of Serviceberry reaching before the spruce, of Honeysuckle so stunning it levelled me: inviting me to lie on my back looking into its delicate beauty. Wow! What a morning at Bell Lake on the Eastern Shore.
There is one gorgeous wee flower maybe a cm across, growing amongst the moss and cranberry that I have been unable to identify. Hoping one of you can.
here it is
Rhodos
Neighbours
I am quite sure this is a type of honeysuckle although I have not seen this variety in ON. I am happy to be corrected and if so I will make sure it goes into the blog corrected.
Leather Leaf is almost through for the year
Cherry
Blue Berry
