May in Trail Wood

Trail Wood #96 Earl Plato

Years past I inherited Teale’s great effort - A Walk Through the Year. Over the years in my circa 20 year weekly nature writeups I often referred to Teale’s works. April has ended and May is here.
On May 1st Edwin Teale wrote as follows:
“ April is a promise/ May is fulfillment.
May is the time when everything seems happening, when life rises to a peak.”
Writer’s note: We in Ridgeway (Fort Erie) Ontario are on the same latitude as Trail Wood, Connecticut. Four seasons here - four seasons there.
“ May is the birdsong month. May is the time when we rebel most of all against routine, when we want the largest margins to our lives, when we desire to wander through the woods and over the fields completely free - as John Muir and Henry Thoreau were free - of all entangling engagements. Perhaps the walks of this month should be headed: Sauntering Through May. May in Spring and October in Fall - these for the average person are the two best loved among the twelve chapters that make up The Book of the Year.”