Mudan River (牡丹江)' (known locally as the Northeast Creek)

On my way into the marshy walk toward the eagles nest I passed this small spring outflow near old route 7 (power and phone lines reflecting across the surface) and noticed the 'cress-like' new growth of green exorbitantly rushing into the perilous cold days of early March - and like my newly favoured chinese poets of old jade and willow I want to wax lyrical about 'the sound of wind on greenly minted Cress down by the Mudan River (牡丹江)'