Willow Branches

Tiny Buds Dept: Droning mosquitoes they re here already? dart over swampy ground. Long, swaying willow branches are lined with thousands of tiny buds and look like skinny green stripes, according to The Star. The solution to that dwindling interest is being pinned on the unlikeliest of saviours: big, bad, crowded Toronto and a line of turtles sun themselves on a log jutting from a still pond. There s nine, no, 10 of them, a little girl shouts excitedly as she counts the reptiles. Rouge Park is bursting with earlier-than-usual spring glory and perhaps the answer to Parks Canada s problem with declining visitor attendance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.