5-30-2011

The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day.
A mist in the valley lying,
Blotted the pleasant May.
-Robert Bridges, English poet
Photo: Chippewa Lagoon by M Wild Hansen

5-29-2011

Photo- M Wild Hansen
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
 I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron

5-24-11

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne

Photos MWildHansen
Rhododendron, May 2011

5-13-2011

photo by M Wild Hansen
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning
-William Arthur Ward

5-1-2011

Photo by Erich Schoahs

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese,

 cleaving the murk of March thaw is the spring.   

 -Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (1887-1948)