First of March in the Pacific Northwest, finds wild nature in a period of recovery and renewal. Nature’s flowering plants, grasses, and brush, are blessed by the nurturing rains that have fallen, and will continue in this new year. Mighty evergreens are paused, and deciduous trees are at the end of their dormancy. Our vast forests, rejuvenated by this waning period of rest, sense Spring at the horizon, when the skies will open further, and the temperature begins its rise.
Streams begin to come to new life as the snowpacks, high in the frozen cold of the Cascade Mountains, begin their thaw. Rains help to invigorate this life giving flow. This high mountain water is a key source to bring forth the Pacific Northwest’s bounty, from the rich Willamette Valley in Oregon, to the Skagit Valley in northern Washington. Also, Rainbow, Brook, German Brown, and Cutthroat Trout grow active as waters rise and cool as snowmelt blends. Bear, deer, cougar, elk, coyote, big horn sheep, pronghorn antelope, hawk, osprey, eagle; all the varied, plentiful wildlife of our region have begun to wrap their winter rituals. Life in the PacNW wilderness, is stirring.
The opening of our winter’s March nears the end of a peaceful time of rest, before the vigorous pace of restoration begins here in this breathtakingly beautiful region. Spring debuts in March, as does the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. A regenerative calm lies upon the lush land, as nature holds its breath. The season of sky-water, still upon us, has done its masterful best to quench nature’s early thirst, and revivify her energies in this utopia. The fruit, berry, and flower buds soon will burst, and paradise will again take center stage, to begin the glory days of Pacific Northwest Spring. Rains end, the sun comes!
orchards vines and fields flex deep
Spring rains fall — streams flow
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rob kistner © 2022
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