It happens every spring, yellow pollen from alder and spruce and other trees gathers in the water and can create amazing patterns and colours.
Heading home along the Kahochella Peninsula, the green leads right to Reliance and Lockhart and Pikes Portage...keep going around to the North Shore and you arrive at our home. 12 miles North of Reliance... hey! I think that is the title of a book by Dave Olesen:).
After the fire, we have the persistence of spruce and fireweed and mosses and lichen and horsetails, all determined to come back. They inspire me!