Spring Creek Fall

Photos and story by Jameswaterwolf. Spring Creek, Alliston, Ontario, Canada

Upon arriving at Spring Creek, an eerie looking ancient Beech tree marks a path for you to follow. The skin is leathery looking with grotesque knots forming where branches have been torn away. For the imaginitive , faces can be seen in it’s knarled and weathered bark. A true Horror movie character, that would give me the creeps if it ever moved unexpectedly!

Another silent sentury stands guard on the flood plain and still bears leaves after hundreds of years. It provides fodder to wood-eating bugs and in turn the insects supply the birds with their food. The weird knots provide homes for squirrels and birds as well.

SPRING CREEK has finished it’s work, flourishing and nourishing the creatures within it’s domain. Allowing the spawning salmon and trout a place to hide their eggs. Berries for birds and squirrels ,it supplied along with a leafy roof  for their heads. Ground dwellers have stored up their dens with food for coming winter’s blight and harsh blanket of unfriendly cold. It will still run underneath the sheets of ice, a mere trickle of  it’s  former self. Thawing and freezing over and over , under the sun’s life giving rays. A restless sleep it begins, with wintering coyotes taking occasional drinks from it’s icy flow. Once noisy frogs and toads are now buried deep in stream bank holes to ride out the frozen world and wait for warmer times. All plants and trees have entered the cycle of dormancy to patiently wait for the sun to come closer to them. I too will have to wait to see it bloom again, once the thawing water spills over it’s banks and settles down to allow everything that’s alive to do it’s best at reproduction and co-existence.

 A  beaver has been busy here felling trees that had just been planted by volunteers. They must be moved, as they are very destructive when it comes to saplings. Hopefully a live-trap will be used to capture the rodent.  I hope you enjoyed my little bit of the heaven where I spend a lot of time meditating ,with a little beer thrown in for a calming kind of buzz. haha                                                                  Miigwech,   Jameswaterwolf.