Spring is slow this year

Today was one of the rare days with slightly warmer temperatures,

 and I choose to take Dixie to a different trail.

Are we going for a walk? Sure - and off we went.

The trail head starts near the Visitors Centre at the Roosevelt Cottage.

In the shadow small patches of snow had survived.

A little bird was flitting through the branches.

 A Golden-crowned Kinglet which was always on the move and

hard to capture but I think this shot

didn't turned out too bad.

Old trees lined our path and one of them showed signs of

heavy attack by woodpeckers.

Dixie seemed to have seen something interesting below this small bridge.

My eyes were trained up to the tree tops.

Male Purple Finch

The trail led out of of the trees and onto an open meadow 

where Dixie got busy collecting garbage.

Her favourites are plastic bottles.

She proudly carries them around.

I should really train her to fetch and drop them 

into a garbage bag.

On we walked across an old apple orchard.

At some places we caught a glint of the bay.

Not many colours around us, spring is slow to come.

Now came the best part:

We stepped out onto the view platform.

Eastport, Maine, ahead. Their deep water harbour does host 

huge tankers. Nothing was there today.

And then the grand vista of the

Passamaquoddy Bay

with Campobello Island, NB on the right, and Deer Island, NB

to the far left. 

Mainland Canada in the distance.

I just love to be here, especially on a day like this.

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Translation

Heute war es ausnahmsweise mal nicht so kalt und wir haben uns einen anderen Spazierweg ausgesucht. Zuerst ging der Pfad durch ein Waldstück. 

Dann ueberquerten wir eine Wiese mit alten Apfelbäumen. 

Von Frühling ist hier noch keine Spur, alles sieht noch braun und grau aus. 

Dixie sammelt gerne Müll. Besonders liebt sie Plastikflaschen.

Der Weg ended auf einer Aussichtsplattform. Dies ist einer meiner Lieblingsplaetze. 

Von hier aus hat man einen grossartigen Ausblick nach Eastport, Main mit seinem Tiefseehafen. 

In Richtung Norden sieht man Campobello Island rechts und Deer Island hinten links. 

Ganz weit in der Ferne das Kanadische Festland. 

Was für eine herrliche Aussicht, besonders an einem sonnigen Tag wie heute!