Nice post Will... inasmuch for the writing as the content.
"trying to be in tune..."
Our neck of the woods here on Sebago Lake is going through similar transformations. The lake is rising and the ice is beoming a granular gray, receding from the shoreline. Our dirt road is soft w/ mud...thick ice w/ caverns carved out by the melt water are still in the pine-shaded curves. And wood smoke rises from the chimney most days.
Any day now I'll hear the first loon who replaces the bald eagle, which fished here in the open brook all winter. But he does not like the summer gests.
The shore is thick w/ great pines, standing sentinel like living posts awaiting a proper structure. The eagle is a fine forester; he has surveyed these woods in the quiet hours...
