That Special Memory

Put a camera in Josiane's hands and give her an open field, a forest, or some ground covered by leaves and she will chance on a treasure.  I wonder if my ancestors, who eventually left such lovely scenes, were able to pause in their toil, remember an almost forgotten day, and pull it from the storage place in their minds.  Was it a balm or a pain - when their new land began to overwhelm them - to find that almost forgotten picture from another time and place.

Cranes Return to Saar from Africa

Sunrise angel in the forest

Old oak in the Mettlach forest

Rare yellow anemone

Early Spring in the Forests of the Saarland and Lothringen

Did the early immigrants from Kreis Saarburg look in vain for some of these wonderful signs of spring in Wisconsin which they knew so well  from their Heimatland?  And did they compare the amount of Wisconsin woodland they now owned to the forests of the old homeland, which belonged only to the Prussian Kaiser or the French Emperor?

wood anemone

A field of spring's very early flowers, snowdrops or Schnee Glöckchen 

Daphne Menzereum

Forest near the River Meuse in March