All Things Green and Beautiful

All manner of little and big and inbetween green foilage has or is emerging. So many shapes, so many shades. Just a few scant weeks ago the pond seemed lifeless. Now it's hard to know where to look first. Everything is on the grow.

Vernal Pools and Creatures

Today our Conservation Commission held a vernal pool workshop for kids and their parents in the town. We scooped up quite a lot of creatures from mosquito larvae to salamanders and skate bugs. The spring waters are teeming with life.

It inspired me to do a some scooping in our pond, too, and I found this stick bug (I have to look it up to find it’s proper name.
I could scoop for hours, if my neck didn’t start to ache after a while! Much better than filing!