With 24 hours of daylight, plants are flourishing and flowering. They have a brief window of warmth and sunshine to flower and produce seed for the next generation. The Labrador tea, cranberries, roses and cotton grass are all adding splashes of color to the tiaga.
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| Labrador tea in bloom |
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| Labrador tea flowers |
With the numerous ponds and small depressions scattered throughout the tiaga, mosquitoes, dragonflies and other water-thriving insects are abundant.
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| Dragonfly on spruce tree |
Less abundant are the large critters that survive in the tiaga. There is the occasional sighting of a moose and bear tracks are seen more often than an actual bear–which I don’t mind. Surprising a bear, even a small black bear, is not something I want to experience. I wouldn’t mind seeing one–just from a good distance away.
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| Small black bear tracks |
