MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • May 15, 2022
May is a dynamic month to be out on the water. Everything is blooming. Manhanock Pond is lined with the conspicuous tiny white urn-shaped flowers of leatherleaf. The red cups of pitcher plants were just starting to emerge out of the sphagnum moss. Flashes of pink caught our attention; the umbrella-shaped flowers of bog laurel, and the delicate curls of rhodora. Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson shared his love of a spring day in his 1834 poem, The Rhodora. Lines 11 and 12 are beautiful: Tell them dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing / Then beauty is its own excuse for Being; ~ Michael Perry