Boreal poets

Sunday carried on being warm and sunny...




Even the birds get pretty houses on Signal Hill Road



and some more mailboxes.



The party bus was waiting and we all piled aboard



and had a photo op at Portugal Cove



before embarking on our Boreal Poetry tour led by Marlene Creates, who read poems in the places where they were composed



like this rock face



pointing out the wildflowers that inspired one poem.



Feels like another spring dawning for me. Fiddleheads and flowers...



A stream runs through it



we endured the blackflies - out in their fury - for the sake of poetry



and forest



and nautical knots in the rope handrails



And then we had a reading. In the garage, which was not entirely blackfly-free, but quite comfortable and atmospheric. Penn Kemp



Sharon Singer,



Susan McMaster,



Joe Blades, and then



Barbara Nickel



And then it was back on the bus, back to the hotel (where food service stops early) so we wrapped up with some pizza we ordered in at the bar.