Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Exquisite fragrances, borne on a beneficent breeze this sunny humid spring day permeate the atmosphere. Wild apple trees in exuberant, breathtaking bloom. Bees and hover flies along with a myriad of insects flutter and fly amongst the petals in a state of sweetly blissful intoxication.
The richly composted aura of the forest floor rejuvenated and hastened by this morning's thunder storm which also varnished the arras with a bright brush of colour, rendering too an added perfume of humus, aiding the wealth of understory vegetation anxious for their seasonal glory.
We see dog-toothed violets, red baneberry, Solomon's seal, trilliums, lilies-of-the-valley, wood violets, Jack-in-the-pulpits, foamflower. Among them, cherry trees in bloom and honeysuckle too; a profuse richness of colour, form and scent to overwhelm the senses with the sublimity of spring perfection.
There are others succumbing to the ethereal beauty surrounding us. Chickadees filtering through branches; and nuthatches. A Phoebe, high on a limb, calling, calling. Nearby, a lively grey squirrel triumphantly possessing a peanut within a daily cache, whose irresistible scent has whetted its appetite.
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