spring's arrival to the north woods

A couple photos I took this weekend of spring's arrival up where I live in the wilderness of the North Woods. The wildlife is making music everywhere and the bears will be waking up soon…😴 🐻 

Here's a little part of a long poem I very much enjoy about the woods:
 
“There Is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods” 
(from “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” canto IV, stanza 178)
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
 
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
   There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
   There is society where none intrudes,
   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
   I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
   From these our interviews, in which I steal
   From all I may be, or have been before,
   To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.