Growth. It feels like everything is growing, stretching, becoming right now. Days growing longer, sunlight growing stronger and bolder, weather growing milder, buds growing plump and ready to burst.
Spring is a time of blossoming, becoming, unfolding. Seeds of ideas that seemed tiny and insignificant in winter’s cold months now open and unfurl, metamorphosing into purposes and life. Nothing is wasted in nature, and nothing is as it seems.
This spring, I’m focusing on my own internal growth and blossoming as it happens all around me in nature. Unfolding and becoming seems to be a repetitive mantra in my life right now, and I’ve learned that when something comes up and doesn’t take no for an answer, it’s important to listen. As the buds turn into leaves, snow turns into melt, mud turns into grass, so too is that transformation occurring inside of us. Life, death, rebirth, destiny. It’s all here, entangled in the equinox.
The wetlands and marshes of Duck Lake. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022A lone coyote wandering the flats. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022Buds and seeds ready for spring. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022An osprey perusing the skies. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022Thorny rosehips. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022Four swans flying before the Selkirk mountain range. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022A northern flicker resting on a branch. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022Winding, poetic branches. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022A pair of Canadian geese. Geese mate for life and have a connecting bond that goes beyond the mating season. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022The unfortunate feathers of a bird’s demise. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022This tree is practically holding its breath, waiting for the moment to unleash its sticky buds. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022A dead vole. Even dead creatures supply and create life, in decomposition and nourishment. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022Raindrops on feathers. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022The final blessing of spring – a bald eagle soaring towards hawks, eagles, and ravens lit on poplar trees. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2022
