Visions of a Pergola

 

Beautiful Beast

 What do you think this is? A kind of potato?

It's the underground rhizome of the aquatic spatterdock, eaten by muskrats and beavers. Quite an amazing pattern.

from Maine Field Guide to Invasive Aquatic Plants - Lake Stewards of Maine

Barefoot Walkthrough

How exciting to have our wildlife cam capture this beautiful animal passing through our yard.

The date of this barefoot walkthrough was well over a week ago (June 9) in the early morning - I slept through this! We had no knowledge, either by scat, scratchings or pawprints that it had even been there. Not only do we have no idea what we're missing out on when we're shut up inside, but there is often no trace after the fact that we can detect.

Freedom

"A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."

- Nelson Mandela