Spring brings the annual floating parade of ice, a majestic sight as the floes stream south right past our door. The trails may be too soft for the snowmobiles and skiers and so the hikers can now enjoy the quiet natural world of rounded snow banks, chuckling brooks, and chirping birds.

If you're looking for crowds the local Quebec Junior hockey team, Acadie-Bathurst Titans, brings the people to their feet with exciting play off hockey. Quiet walks in the woods lead to discoveries of the beauties of the first wild flowers and, as light green leaves uncurl, it' s fiddle head season. Either gather your own or find a neighbour willing to share. These lightly steamed greens with just a drop of lemon let us taste spring.  

Lobster is a spring treat here in Acadie-Bathurst. With the ice gone by early May the boats launch before daybreak. There's usually some snow under the trees to cool the freshly steamed lobster so that taste is perfect. It's still time to gather round the fireplace in the evening but so warm to relax outside on the woodside porch in the late afternoon sunshine contemplating the lupins as the days lengthen into summer.