A friend of mine quips, "Maine has three seasons: Snow, Mud and Bug." And she is right. Mud season is what comes after the snow and before the bugs, and it is messy and not much fun. In mid February we are all thinking of when snow season will be over. We think of spring and birds and sun and warmth, our minds skipping over mud season as nimbly as a flat rock skips over the waves when it is thrown just right. But when we DO think about it, we believe that under the white that layers the world around us right now is mud, ready to suck in our car tires and muck up our shoes. But there is more under that snow. This is a photo I took in December of moss and (I think) lichen, growing in a grove of evergreen trees. I like to think about it there, a hidden layer of color and life under the frosting of winter.
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