Spring at Trail Wood Pond

Trail Wood #39 Earl Plato
Writer’s note: Marcy Pond is still frozen over. The trails are icy with deep ruts so walking is still difficult. Teale’s March 25th log gives us a different ,warmer view of Trail Wood pond.
“ The ice goes out of the pond today. All morning we see it melting. Shrinking in the sun. Slowly it retreats to the shaded edge if Azalea Shore. There we watch it growing thin and dark and filled with holes, becoming spongy and turning to slush. By noon only a thin shelving of solid ice remain along the shore. Now, standing on the pond-edge path in the mid-afternoon, we watch the last breeze ruffles its surface-something we have not see since fall. Looking up our bass and bluegills now see the sky instead of their winter-long roof of ice and snow. So one of the great turning moments of the Trail Wood year arrives. Leaf-fall in autumn ushers in the months of cold. The going out of he ice of the ice in the pond ushers in the months of warm.” Spring has come to Trail Wood.