Blooms

Leaves are on the trees and hedgerows are blooming. Blooms line the roads, trails, banks and shorelines of streams, ponds and sea. 

Sometimes the blooms are unidentifiable in a distant row of trees 

separating fields. 

At times, blooming trees line the trails 

and one can identify some of them. The pink-white colours of the Wild Apple blooms make them easy to distinguish.

Pin Cherry trees are everywhere and are covered in blooms.

Mountain Ash is blooming now as well, its leaves reminding one of the orange berries to follow.

Sumac is distinctive too, clusters of creamy blooms erupting from rose coloured buds. 

On a rare occasion, an old homestead has lilac trees along a trail.

Some of the prettiest blooms right now though are on the Choke Cherry trees which are everywhere as well. 

My favourite photos were from the boardwalk by the sea.

Nature in late spring on Prince Edward Island is a feast for the senses.

Question from the post on Thunder Cove by Boud at https://fieldfen.blogspot.com/

Does the sand stain the way red clay does? 

The red clay of the island does stain sneakers and clothes. We use an old towel or blanket sitting on a red sand beach, especially in the wet sand. However, not all beaches are on the island have red sand, such as the beach at Cavendish and white sand beaches on the south shore of the island. The colour of the sand depends on the rate of erosion in an area. 

Country road

The road is deep in the red dirt.

 

My husband and I were here last October when the leaves were almost spent, the red and orange remnants falling around us as we passed. Today, the dominant colour is green as we walk with the golden grand-dog, Georgie.

 

The Millman Road is in the center of the island, a heritage road which cuts through farmland over rolling hills. The canopy was magical. 

 

The sound of the earth on this day is the wind in the trees while the sunlight dances on the road as it filters through them. It is a feast for the senses.

 

Blossoms are falling today, not leaves. Mountain ash, 

 

pin cherry, chokecherry 

 

and apple trees

 

are in mid to late bloom and in places, petals cover the road. By the side of the road, lupins are in bud or blooming.

 

The forest floor is covered with Wild Lily of the Valley and Bluebead Lily but the blossoms are miniature in this setting. 

 

Their leaves are the dominant feature of the forest floor.

 

Robins land on the road and hop ahead of us until Georgie decides to run towards them. She soon learns how senseless is that endeavour. Woodpeckers have had their way with the trees along the road, as evidenced by the many holes left in the old wood.

 

At the top of a hill, you can look out over the countryside, past the fields planted with various crops, including potato. The countryside below is bisected by the Southwest River which flows into New London Bay on the north shore.  

 

At the end of the road, someone has a garden whose beauty matches what nature provides on the remainder of the road. We walked slowly back to the car, absorbing the essence of the earth as a world of green.