For this month's Field Notes feature, Susan Knight discusses Wild Rice, and its amazing transformation from spring to fall. It’s almost spring. You can feel warm air wafting amidst the chill. The lakes are starting to melt; it will be paddling time soon. My favorite paddle any time of year is the south basin of Allequash Lake. If you could take a time lapse sequence of yourself paddling on Allequash you would see a remarkable metamorphosis. In the first frames you are paddling on a quiet lake in