Spring in Canada is a time when you start to notice more animals out in the forest. A lot were there all winter long but were held up in sheltered foraging areas, now free to range farther for food unencumbered by snow. Some animals that are migratory like ducks and geese return home from more southern climates to nest and breed.
Two days ago while driving into town I saw three juvenile "jake" turkeys running along side of the highway, stretching their feet (and their luck). Nightly when I take the dogs out I hear flocks of geese flying overhead in the dark under the stars returning north.
Heres a decorative tray made by a Chicago company called Multi Products
that celebrates the ducks back in the marshes. It shows two ring neck ducks flying over cattails and waterlilies. Made from a weird wood product called SYROCO (actually a compression molded sawdust, wax and resin mixture) it was used for cheaply making items like picture frames and figurines back in the 1930's and 1940's by this company for a hand crafted look for the every man at an affordable price.
-Martin
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I had no idea that Syroco was the name of a wood product! I just picked up a Syroco clock today at Value Village (an atomic starburst style circa '60s).
I love hearing the geese honking in the early morning hours, before the sun has popped up.
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