BLOOMING 
     
     PO'NT 
     
    
   
   
    
     by Andy Dean 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is a golden strand 
     
     0f shining, shifting, sandy dunes 
     
     That slope and sweep 
     
    

    
     And soar majestically, 
     
    

    
     Gliding gracefully, — 
     
    

    
     Down to the sea. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is a surging wave. 
     
     A swelling surf; 
     
    

    
     And breakers rolling, 
     
    

    
     Splashing, tumbling, 
     
    

    
     Lapping lightly 
     
    

    
     0n the gently sloping, 
     
    

    
     Curving of the shore. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is a peaceful beach 
     
     0f gulls, and creatures 
     
     Of the ocean. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jellyfish, mussels, crabs and clams. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lobster claws and strands 
     
     0f seaweed, Irish moss, 
     
     And stones of sandy red. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is salt—water marsh 
     
     0f leathery leaf of goldenrod. 
     
     “Bayberry bush and sweet gale shrub 
     
     Dragonfly and damselfly 
     
    

    
     Iris, blue - and red-winged blackbird 
     
     Toad and toadstool, 
     
    

    
     Lichen, frog. 
     
    

    
     And in the boggy soil 
     
    

    
     The cranberries grow 
     
    
   
   
    
     . And a million spiders, spin their webs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is fresh water pond 
     
     Ducks, black, - and cattails tall 
     
     Alder catkins, rush and sedge, 
     
    

    
     And along the edge, 
     
    

    
     The skeletons of trees 
     
    

    
     That sadly drowned, and stand bereft 
     
     0f life, but somehow strangely dignified, 
     
     And silhouetted guard the home ' 
     
    

    
     0f yellowthroat and song sparrow 
     
     Bittern, heron, goose, merganser, 
     
     Goldeneye, - and grebe. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blooming Point is green savannah 
     
     waving grasses, farmers pasture, 
     
     Maple trees, and tract of fir and spruce. 
     
     Willows, ferns, - woodpeckers 
     
    

    
     Black-capped chickadees 
     
    

    
     Juncos, warblers, robins, strawberries 
     
     Violets, asters, bunchberries, blueberries, 
     
     Cloudless days and brilliant skies. 
     
     Blooming Pbint, - is Paradise! 
     
    
   
   
    
     — 
     
    
   
   
    
     ISLAND NATURE TRUST 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Island Nature Trust has appointed Diane Griffin to the position of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Executive Director of the Trust. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mrs. Griffin has been the Natural Areas 
     
    
   
   
    
     Co-ordinator for the province of Alberta since 1977, but has taken a leave of 
     
     absence from that position to return to her native province. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For the next year the priorities of the Island Nature Trust will be 
     
     acquisition of’natural areas, creation of public awareness of the importance of 
     
     having such areas maintained in a natural state and provision of biological 
     
     information on a contractual basis to the Department of Energy and Forestry on 
     
     woodland natural areas. woodland natural areas possess at least one of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     following characteristics: 
     
     1. uncommon or rare species 
     
    
   
   
    
     such as at Royalty Oaks 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. very old or large trees such as found in Townshend Nbodlot 
     
     3. an association of trees and other plants that are representative of 
     
     the original majestic forests that covered the Island 
     
     Anyone who is aware of any woodland that exhibits these characteristics 
     
     is asked to contact the Island Nature Trust at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown or to phone 892-9127. 
     
    
   
   
    
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