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Blue jay in the winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday was a wash spread to fitful sun and cloud; a mild wind of February, and a sheltered hillside baring; a lone wild duck on wing and a blue jay\u2019s shrill call. It was children off bright and eager to school-by sleigh, and the farmers busy about at the choring and hauling. We saw a grist being taken to the mill, one which will vanish smartly in tins and handfuls to the mangers of the stables about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Next thing we know there\u2019ll be lambs\u2019 Mack, little fellow of the place came in with the news today. \u2018Yes, shortly. Do you know we\u2019re not too far from spring now? There\u2019ll be more calves and kittens too!\u2019 he remembered. \u2018I hope\u2019 he added soberly \u2018we\u2019ll have good luck with those.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar maple sap collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd through the branches of the maples in the yard, the little breeze played, bringing us tales of a sap-time of young years we knew\u2026 of honey-combed March snow in an old woodland where odd sugar maples grew. Not far from the sweetest brook rippled its thawing tunes as between woodsy banks it emerged in a meadow and ran at length to the river and Strait. And the trees tapped and tended by the farmlands thus providing nectar for themselves and any wayfaring maids could not know how far apart the band would one day wander to visit and dwell in separate climes and places.\u201d
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PEI in Winter. Image Source.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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