Through a process called thermogenesis skunk cabbages are able to generate temperatures far higher than the surrounding air. If so I never saw it but it was an angry snarl that didn’t sound like any duck I’ve ever heard. I wonder if they were being stalked by a bobcat when I came along and ruined its hunt. You won’t need a defibrillator when that happens I’ll tell you, but what struck me most about it was the sound of snarling just before the flock hit the sky.
When I was taking these photos a small flock of ducks burst from the cattails not five feet from me. There is little for bears to at this time of year but a helpful reader wrote in and said that they also dig up and eat the roots of cattails. Bears that come out of hibernation early will sometimes eat skunk cabbages but not much else bothers them. The skunk cabbages ( Symplocarpus foetidus) are happy in their swamp. I’ve seen them bloom in January and March but never in February, so I would have liked to have seen them. There were three plants in one small area with seed heads all over them. I didn’t see any dandelions blooming but that’s only because I was late getting there. The other day I noticed it was dripping sap, so syrup season is under way. We have sugar maples where I work and someone broke a twig on one of them. Tea made from the inner bark was used to treat coughs. Early settlers used red maple bark to make ink, and also brown and black dyes. Native Americans used the bark medicinally to treat hives and muscle aches. The flowers open at different times even on the same tree, so the likelihood of them all being wiped out by a sudden cold snap is slim. The purple bud scales slowly open to reveal more and more red and soon after this stage the actual flowers will begin to show. I found these red maple buds near the Ashuelot River in Keene and was surprised to see so much red on them. This means we see less blue than we do when water vapor is at a lower level. The scientific term for this phenomenon is “ Mie scattering.” The sun’s angle can also make a difference in how much of the blue we see. The level of humidity in the air can make a difference in the blue of a sky because water vapor and water droplets reflect more of the blue light back into space. A spring sky isn’t quite as crisp as a winter sky but it is still beautiful. Each season seems to have its own shade of blue for the sky. Another tree I always love seeing in spring is the red maple, with all of its globular red buds standing out against a blue sky. There is a species of willow from Europe and Asia called golden willow ( Salix alba vitellina) but I have no way of knowing if this tree is that one. One of the signs of spring that I’ve always enjoyed is the way willows turn golden, as the one in the above photo has. The Fish and Game Department has been telling us to stay out of the way of the bears, which is surely good advice even if it is common sense. I haven’t seen any alarming signs of plants waking early but the bears and skunks are awake, and they’re hungry. When the normal cold temperatures return, sometimes weeks later, the plants and animals that have woken early are taken by surprise and can suffer. A false spring, for those who don’t know, is a period of unusual warmth in late winter or early spring that can last long enough to bring plants and animals out of dormancy.
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Whack stumps full of fatwood with a weapon.It certainly appears that spring is upon us but those of us who have been around for a few decades are always wary of a false spring. Use Dowsing Rod in Wonder Pond and Winter Glade bodies of water. Whack the Pith plant, which comes in three pieces, with a sickle Whack the white, square blocks with a sickle Use the Dowsing Rod in the Sewer's bodies of water In Summer's End, Lily Landing and others, whack plants with parasol or pick Whack the pale yellow, sandy blocks with pick or parasol Whack jars washed up on beaches with pick/parasol/hammer Use Dowsing Rod anywhere in Spring Hamlet Whack leafy overgrown stumps with pick/parasol/hammer Whack rocks with pick/parasol/hammer or use Dowsing Rod Whack rocks, Rots and sandstone with pick/parasol/hammer Use the Dowsing Rod to "fish" it from the water Whack stumps and Rots with pick/parasol/hammer For example, Cornerstone in Autumn Town can only be harvested with a sickle!
If an object is sparkling, a resource can be harvested from it! Some resources can only be harvested with specific tools, which are also listed below. In general, the only way to collect resources is by hitting a sparkling object with Concord's weapon.
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Below is a table of resources and where to find them, as well as how to collect them. Some are only found in specific locations. There are many types of resources in The Grove some are found everywhere, like twigs and rocks.
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