We noted the death of a couple of Canada Geese down at Patersquash Creek. The bodies were still lying on the ice when I took this picture. By now the ice has melted back and the carcasses will have sink into the water to decompose and feed the shellfish and baitfish and continue through the food chain.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
Hamlet: Act I, scene 2, line 72 - W. Shakespear
Then we drove around to Section 1 Marina and I took this video. Please forgive my lame video photography and altering skills.
The winter diving ducks were feeding on something that was under the ice.
For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where. - Shakespear, Sonnet 5.
When the cold of winter comes Starless night will cover day In the veiling of the sun We will walk in bitter rain
But in dreams I can hear your name And in dreams We will meet again
When the seas and mountains fall And we come, to end of days In the dark I hear a call Calling me there, I will go there And back again
It has been a bitter cold three weeks. I apologize for my year-long hiatus. I hope to be more diligent in the future.
