It’s cool outside, but not shivery. We seem to be able to smell spring starting to disturb the winter fields with spurts of fresh, aromatic growth here and there. Or, maybe it’s a bit of early pollen that we’re sniffing. Nonetheless, things definitely are happening in and around the fields, woods, streams, and ponds.
The growth around the base of this maple is not one of those signs of spring, although it may look like a hallucinated fungus to some. It’s an ever-growing collection of lost and discarded lobster trap and other buoys photographed yesterday on the WoodenBoat School Campus.
(Brooklin, Maine)