Bad news: black flies are out.

There was some debate on what constitutes Ice Out day. We used the same criteria that the study states and that the Curtis family has used for the last 5 years..(See below).

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

Robert Frost

If you are single, send check for $35 to the address below. If you are a couple, send $55. You are also welcome to send more money as a charitable donation.

Loon Ranger Lee

lcattix@gmail.com

Dedicated to the protection and welfare of loons and their lakes through collaboration, education, and the implementation of successful conservation actions.

Photo prints available from Ralph Fletcher at fletcher17@earthlink.net

I imagine Fuzlee is busy learning valuable social skills, hopefully making friends who may be needed at various times throughout his/her youth. That along with continuing to hone foraging skills.

Loon Ranger Lee

by Reishi

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth