Our freshwater ponds are full and the spring-fed streams that feed those ponds are roaring through the woods here on Maine’s Down East coast. Yet, yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture designated two of the State’s inland counties as primary natural disaster areas due to the long-running drought there.
Above, you see clusters of Arrow Arum flourishing as they reflect themselves in the ample waters of a nearby lily pond yesterday. Below, you’ll see one of the pond’s little feeder streams rushing and bubbling yesterday through its banks of Sphagnum Mosses.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 3, 2021.)