MAPLE BUDS, APRIL 22.
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No mistake this time. Someone clipped the twigs from his maple tree for me. I will be observing them with great interest as they unfold.: such a tiny example of the everwhelming majesty of the universe!!!

BUDS BURSTING INTO LEAF.

Not ever having observed it closely in the wild , I was quite amazed to see how quickly this happened yesteday.

Abour a week ago I picked a small branch of what I believed to be maple tree buds, and placed them in fertilized water on my window sill. I figured it would be a slow process that would give me plenty of time to record the unfolding. At mid-day they looked the same but by late afternoon they had all burst into leaf as if on cue.

LONG-LEAVED BLUETS.

This is the first wild plant I've found in bloom this Spring in my neck of the woods. Actually, I found it in a gravel bank not too far from my back door. The blossoms are so tiny that one would not likely see them unless looking for them.

BLUETS ON A DIME.

BLUETS ON A CENT.

A PROMISE MADE.

These are birch buds Decidious trees are just now coming into bud. We know the sequence. It will end in their golden contrubition to the collage of that glorious autumn orchestration of the whole company of our leafed companions.

MAX CLARK'S NEW MOTOR-BOAT.

This is the real McCoy, an authentic Newfoundland "motorboat" , powered by a 6 1/2 hp Acadia make an'break engine, and built by an elder craftsman in Trinity. This is a unique Newfoundland design, developed and honed by many generations of Newfoundland fisherman This is a skill that will be lost to the new Newfoundland generations who must comply with the utterly stupid DFO regulations which result in fishermen having to go to sea in ugly ducklings and floating coffins. Perhaps there is nothing that can better illustrate the absurdity of Newfoundland being governed by Ottawa.


A couple of summers ago I had occasion to visit the boat museum in Winterton. I couldn't believe what they have on display there as a Newfoundland motor-boat. This is a band-saw job, and no more like a real Nfld. boat than Buggs Bunny is like a rabbit. Perhaps they intended this only as a mock-up to con the tourists. However, It is an embarrassment to have this in a museum. Surely the genuine article would be more apropos. Thanks to people like Max Clark who provide a market and encouragement, there will be reason to keep the old traditional craft alive and boat builders occupied until they too pass away.

I did not take this photo; it was given to me by Max It was taken in Trinity .