Basics

 Ravenswood Park, Gloucester, Massachusetts

High-up in the crowns.
Looks like a perfect place to take a lunch.

It is all about food, so they say. But, is it ?
  Perhaps, at the moment.

   Where is my scone ?

Amidst Burbles

Adams Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Early spring comes with burbles and plants that love water.
Trees are still asleep
  and
those lowest personas, close to earth, enjoy open sunlight.

  Gentle steps... 

Where are You ?

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts

    Somewhere... 

Being Watched

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts

Anytime I step into the woods, there is this feeling that I am being watched.
From the branches, behind the rocks and trunks, inside the bushes.
These eyes.

Every so often I see them, more often I don't,
 but I know
  they are there...

Borderland

Borderland State Park, Sharon, Massachusetts

Lots of water...

Walking along Leach Pond, Cedars !!!
I love these trees and don't see them often.
So, why are they here ?

Digging into the past, I find the answer.

Poquanticut Cedar Swamp, which is now underneath Leach Pond, was the large White Cedar Swamp.

In the 1820s,
after the Poquanticut Cedar Swamp was clear-cut of all its trees,
General Sheperd Leach mined the swamp for bog iron ore.
After the bog iron was removed,
a natural earthen berm on the south side of the swamp was raised
to make a pond
to provide water for mills in Furnace Village...

AHA !!!!

The nature has adapted and White Cedars paid the price... 

Searching for the Spring

Brewster's Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Cool and windy, bundled-up.

Chirps and flirts delight, as the waking songs amidst the browns.

And then there is this water, lots of water,
   in the ponds,
    with young lilies coming through,
  and Canadiens enjoying splashing it around.
 
 A single swan at peace...