Renewal

 Allens Pond, Westport, Massachusetts
 
I see a mother swan with her little ones, all around.
 Looks, steps, swims into the world.

  With the eyes on guard...

By Way of Ferns

Broad Meadow Brook, Worcester, Massachusetts
 
This place 
is named after a brook that passes through unnoticed.

 WHY?

Ferns, ferns...
 in all their beauty,
  mingle with trees in the freshest creations.

Then this meadow, overgrown in joyful sways.
 Just watch and feel!!!
  Grass, grass...
    and the brook. I don't see him but I know he is HERE... 

In Green

Broad Meadow Brook, Worcester, Massachusetts
 
Dragonflies animate in sparkling flutter.
 
Looks like the work of a beaver.
The trunks of dead trees are the posts for herons to land on and observe.
 
Not much water.

Enough for the swan to paddle, plucking out duckweeds.
Other than that,
   grasses, leaves and flowers. The colorful hideouts.
 
 Red-winged blackbirds sing their songs... 

Back Again

Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Lush, green.

Just about there must be a free flowing stream.
Wildly dense.

Young pines are thriving.

Here,
 Fowler's Toad, almost invisible.
  Over there,
     Oriole likes to be seen.

So many flowers, buzzing.

Emergent forest celebrates...