Something reader KerryCan said in a comment one day got me thinking that I’d like to see if I could get a photo of Providence that could make a part of the city pass for rural. At first, I found only bland vacant lots left over from the rerouting of route 195. Then I went to Blackstone Park, where a treehugger tree and an ersatz teepee caught my eye.
The soccer-playing kid is in a suburban-looking area on the East Side, and the glowing tunnel is right downtown.
I thought the sandbox looked lonely.
In Massachusetts, I went looking for skunk cabbage and jack-in-the-pulpit plants, but it was too early. Not spring yet. I did hear peepers. And I saw gracefully rotting tree stumps, a bird on a mailbox, and a wonderful rainbow.
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You did pretty well in Providence–who knew it would be so difficult!? I love the tree stumps best, though.
Fungus-covered tree stumps in woods are magical: there was an elf or fairy ducking out of sight just before the shutter clicked.
Keep trying–one of these days you’ll catch the little critter!
Yes. I still believe.