Skookumchuck Notebook

Day 169 Still Amazed Haiku

So why is this here?/

Will it matter if it fails/

Should someone be called?/

Day 168 Bursting Soon Haiku

Really? Wooden Pipe?/

Several exuberant leaks/

This can't last too long/

Day 167 Pepperell

Rusty industry/

The rotting infrastructure/

Strangely pretty here/

Day 166 Sick Haiku

Coughing and sweating/

Not so bad actually/

It's strangely freeing/

The following picture has nothing to do with being sick, but it is a nice photo of Deb on the vista point in Rocky Woods Park.

Days 163, 164 and 165 Even More Sprang!

Trying to keep up on this. Easter break is upon us so I'm going to use the time to try and reassert control over the headlong rush of things making up my life, among them is this project. I do this despite being totally slammed by a cough and a fever, which Deb and I both seem to have... In any event here are a few more photos...

This is the best view to be had in Rocky Woods park, where the vistas have been largely blocked by young pines.

Below is Deb and a particularly pungent variety of early blooming Witchhazel.

First Dafodil in our yard, next to the split rail fence by the rivulet under the uncertian pines. In Oregon these bloomed 6 weeks ago, (but then, they've also had 38 straight days of rain, too) but here they are a totall relief from Winter.

The Forsythia just hit too, all at once between April 10th and today (the 15th)

Below, the venerable Skunk Cabbage of Chicken Brook

And the flower no documentation of early spring would be complete without, the intrepid Crocus.

Days 146-163 Finally Gettin' Some Sprang!

First off, here's this butterfly in Rocky Woods park near Medfield....

 

Here's more of the same ragged, exhausted, punch-drunk early spring Butterfly who migrated in early for some over-achieving Lepidoptera reason. This was a few weeks ago, when the Forsythia hadn't even started, it still felt wintery, coming upon this guy after a winter like what we've just had felt almost as shocking as stumbling upon an alien...

 

Here below is a genuine waterfall I discovered last week in the green spaces that dot the densely populated exurb of Malden, Massachusetts, where one would not expect to find waterfalls...

 

And this here below is Medway High School where I enjoy semi-celebrity status as a highly prized substitute teacher. The High Schools I have taught in in the last two years have taught me more than ever learned being a High School student...