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<\/a><\/p>\nAmy joined us for a couple of days so the three of us hiked off through the woods on the lurk for signs of Spring. We found what we were looking for in this sweet little crocus bloom.<\/p>\n
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COMING AND GOING<\/h3>\n
We never thought to take a picture of Bob but he snapped photos of Amy and Camille on the way to Abeyance and on the way home, about to cross the little bridge on the other side of the rice fields.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jason and Haruka’s playful nature shows through in their fanciful scarecrow creations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Truly, one must be an optimist to spend the time and energy needed to impregnate logs with mushroom spores. And only a pessimist plans for dry weather by digging an irrigation pond. Amazingly, both perspectives share space in the same head, the farmer’s heads of Jason and Haruka.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rachel organized a Spring Equinox bonfire designed to celebrate the end of winter or at least speed its departure. Camille wrote about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s nothing like a good fire to connect with our inner cave being. It was beautiful to watch the sparks rise up and turn into stars, feeling the heat of the flames and the warmth of our friendships.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This sublime fish sculpture marks the trail that goes to Tami and Lyle’s new home by their pond.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A few weeks later, Amy returned and back off into the woods we went. We met one of Carl’s cousins who lives just down the trail from him, a shapely beech named Chloe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The crocuses were gone by now, replaced by daffodils and others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amy has an eye for flowers, spotting even the smallest blooms amid the leaf litter. She wasn’t here for the short lived Trout Lily season but we managed to find a couple of them, heads bowed in farewell.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We also spotted this fresh-looking deer carcass, sans antlers, skin and meat. We couldn’t decide if it was a human hunter or an animal that left it this way or how long the bones might have lain here. Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n Always the nature freaks, we’ll go out and wander through the woods no matter the weather. But it’s a whole lot more fun when the weather is nice and this month Mother Nature was definitely in a good mood. – March, 2014 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FIRST BLOOM – MARCH 2ND <\/p>\n \n Amy joined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nHAPPY GUARDIANS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTHINKING AHEAD<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTHE EXORCISTS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nMESMERIZED<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nJAPAN TRAIL<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMARCH 26 HIKE<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nDAFFODILS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nSWEET LITTLE BLOOMS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nLIFE AND DEATH<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a> * [March 2014]<\/a> * [That Nature Thing]<\/a> * [Greenhouse Building]<\/a> * [Edible Earthscapes Spring Planting]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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