Snake Fence, drawing, 2016

April is always a surprise for us up here in the backwoods.  Some years the weather is mild with the snow gone from the start, others it can present very unwelcome winter weather for the first few weeks. As a parent, I can't tell you how aggravating a no school "snow day" is on April 15th! In this drawing I am meeting the weather halfway.  There is still patchy snow on the ground but the lovely little yellow trout lilies have appeared. They have these amazing spackled green and olive brown leaves that look very fishy.  Snake fences like this, made up of grey split cedar rails, can be found throughout our bush connecting us to that old homesteader who worked so hard clearing fields by hand.  Fields that were reclaimed by the wilderness ages ago.