While on the subject...
I've replaced the pic above with one from the Yggdrasil Field Day on Flowering Plants and Trees we attended. You can see our intrepid group, as we enter into the wilderness.
Jim Saunders (who is also one of our Miramichi Monthly nature columnists) and Dave MacLeod presented most of the information, teaching about the relationship flowering plants (and others) have with determining soil conditions, which can then be used to indicate what kinds of trees would most effectively be grown in the area, in a properly managed woodlot.
The event was free-- a community service that Yggdrasil puts on each year. This year, there will also be a followup on Aquatic Life in August. Afterwards, we were treated to supper at the Goodie Shop and a slideshow presentation of some of Jim's fabulous photos of plant flowers and related pics.
The weather was the only minor inconvenience. Today was a scorcher. Temperatures were said to reach about 34 degrees with the humidity index pushing it up close to 45. Remembering that less than two weeks ago, temperatures had been clocking in at 10 and 12 degrees, I have some concerns about our meteorlogical balance. A month ago, there was similar patterns. We had days in the 30's followed by single digit days and even a night of frost.
So now I sit, drenched in fly dope and sweat. A Thunderstorm has been threatening all day, but so far we only experience a light sunshower this morning and a single clap of thunder in the distance to mark the beginning of our trek out of the bush.
Arriving home, sunset was bright red, with a rainbow that because of the overwhelming hue of the sky, appeared more like a scarlet ribbon; the weak spectrum of colours was completely swallowed up, while the rainbow still maintained it's arcing form.
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