Trail Wood with Teale March 2

Trail Wood #13.09 Earl Plato
It was one March 2 when Edwin Teale wrote the following: “The trouble with looking at birds” an all-around naturalist friend of mine once observed, “is that you miss so much else while you are looking at birds.” The same might be said for looking at ferns or rocks or wild flowers or deer. Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous two-line poem in A Child’s Garden of Verses runs, “The world is so full of a number of things. I’m aure we should all be happy as kings.” For the field naturalist, however, this happiness is diluted from time to time by reflections on the number of things slipping by while he is looking elsewhere. When Nellie and I are circling the pond we are missing what is going on along the Old Woods Road, when we explore the area of Ground Pine Crossing, we have no idea what is occurring in Firefly Meadow.”
Writer’s note: So be it Edwin. We mere mortals are not “ All seeing.”