In a mixed pine and deciduous forest, a moose stood in the snow; innumerable cod swam in the Atlantic; Canadian geese flew in the skies, and a curator, who came all the way from Nova Scotia, suggested that it was the Bay of Fundy, from which Bathsheba emerged. The curator of a Museum of Acadian Maritime Cultures, the University Archivist, and Sido sat together, and page by page in the Music Box Book of Hours, they explored details in the images.

When they looked for fish and shellfish, in great quantities, they saw cod, herring, haddock, swordfish, sturgeon, salmon, trout, lobsters, scallops, and oysters. When they looked for birds and wild animals, they saw rabbits, deer, partridges, beaver, ducks, northern gannets, seals, dolphins, whales, loons, owls, sandpipers, and many more.

arrow In paintings and in design elements, the curator identified plants that might be native in the woods and meadows of Acadia: low sweet blueberries, Christmas Fern, laurel, salt hay, northern bog goldenrod, Canadian mayflower, wild strawberries, wild sarsaparilla. wild walnuts, paper birch, and mountain maples.