Middle Season #7 - 2026

 This is the middle season when green things stir from the earth.  Also the season of robins arriving.  The tulips are 6" high in the yard and totally green by the end of this middle season (March 10). The photo above on March 2nd or 3rd.  The top left are poppies in the yard.  The top right are are snowdrops in someones lawn.  I forget the name of the bottom left, which in prominently in a yard on maple in old town.  Aconite?  A lawn has huge fields of these.

Sunday, Mar 1

1. 3:12. No more sun in the hotelRoom bc after noon. Fewer icebergs in the marina. No ducks in sight. 
2. 5:41. Moon between 1/2 and 3/4. Rising from the marina houses. Same color as the soft clouds. Soft moon gently materializes in the pale blue afternoon sky. 

Monday, Mar 2

1. 6:56. Layer cake sky. Orange against the black paper cutout of buildings and house and trees on horizon. Then pale white. Then pale blue getting darker higher. 
2. A small Sycamore tree down in the block, but I never knew existed with a few handfuls of Sycamore
3. Robyn just above my head, plucking tiny crab apples
4. Big pine tree on Gilbert Road with hundreds of pinecones gathered at the ends of the branches, especially the top branches a little bit further to the south to other pine trees, no pinecones at all
5. Suddenly, robyn’s everywhere swooping calling out to each other. It’s the predominant sound.
6. Something like a scotch pine with fire fewer just a few a handful of pinecones and then another really tall different type of pine with shape like a missile 40 feet high and the top is almost solid with pinecones brown
7. Mom walking a kid in Gilbert Park in a stroller equipped with a kind of sleeping bag gadget they're headfirst in an Evergreen hedge that Mom is saying I guess you’re just gonna have to hear them. It’s the sparrows, boisterous.
8. The Littel soccer field right next to field Park school was filled with Robbins just now pecking around for possible worms. They’re scared off by an oncoming train and fly up into the naked branches of the trees in the park

Tuesday, March 3

1. Small destroyed deconstructed  bird nest fallen from higher and caught in the lower limbs of a small tree 
2. Owl (?) on light pole on I-294 looking down at Flagg creek woods
3. The beginning green blush of a leaf bud on a bush during a lunchtime walk
4. Snowdrops and some small Purple flower. Crocus? Not open yet.Small daffodils and tulip stems. 
5. A flock of unheard Sandhill cranes in the sky. Gone from view in a minute. 

Wednesday, March 4

1. 6:50. Scolding Robin drinks from bird bath. 
2. 6:56. A fawn/taupe female cardinal rests on lawn furniture before coming for a drink. Orange beak. Just a touch of red midway down the wing, like a fall leave just changing color. 
3. Landscapers next door cutting off heads of hydrangeas and blowing leftover leaves. 
4. 3:48. Sky is low and uniform light gray. The leftover tall grasses so pale. Almost golden.

Thursday, March 5

1. Weather is thick fog. Can barely see lights of houses across the street
2. 12 mins to get to school. 7:07 now. 3breaths. While outside sounds of tires in wet street.  
3. The evergreens in the sun after a rain, giving off some warm evergreen smal
4. Those were Arbor vita, but there’s another hedge of Evergreen (those that create the gin berries) also has good smell
5. Another evergreen maybe a type of fur tree? This one has tiny drops of rain at the edge of each drooping frond
6. 48 and damp and humid. Feels like a new season. 
7. Sun lighting up a place in the solid over cast
8. Some big tree cut down in Gilbert park. Now just parallel lines of cut trunk and limbs. 
9. Some light brown leaves towards the bottom limbs of this one maple I think tree. In field park east. Among 20’living beings taking up space in the air. I am not alone!  The trees on display. Also no one is noticing
10. A particularly heartbroken train whistle approaching from the east
11. Lots of people out this early evening. But they’re dog walkers and phone watchers only.

Friday, March 6

1. Rain. Steady. Bird thru rain. 
2. I’ve been walking for 20 minutes at FullersBerg and now I’m at the intersection by the raised sewer cap down by the sign that says working the Night Shift
3. The first 10 minutes it was raining decently hard my rain jacket on and a hat noticed lots of ducks lots of geese and water rushing in little streams to fill the salt creek
4. Then the sun came out in the grass at lighter and I saw the water drop on bins of lots of leaves and noticed how rushing the salt creek is right now
5. 1 million midges above the bridge over South Creek. Are these the first insects of the year?
6. All the way up the hill and at the top of the hill are lots of trees with their brown leaves still attached
7. Minutes 20 to 30 get me right to the top of Where there were rocks to air, the water are now smooth water falling over into ripples heavy water
8. Eight minute 40 I’ve made it to the little passageway way out into the subdivision across from the nature center
9. At minute 50 I’m heading west on the straightway approaching the bridge in York Road
10. at minute 60 I just walked parallel to spring road -- heading west - a coyote for a while across the street by the houses on Spring Road and saw a couple places on salt Creek that had fog on them rising from them
11. Maybe an owl with squat body flapping upstream?
12. Woodpecker, striking, red on back of neck
13. In these last 10 minutes standing on the bridge, the fog is coming up and over Salt Creek beginning just in one or two places and all over completely transforming changing this place
14. The salt creek like the firehole river in yellowstone as I drive out of FB woods. Smoke rising all along its length. 

Saturday, March 7

1. Rainy morning. With occasional gusts that resonate through the structures of the house

Sunday, March 8

1. The moon at the new 6:35 thru the clouds, behind the branches, pale and mysterious, just before tucking behind the peak of the garage roof. But glad to see it just the same. A few days after full. Eroded on the front side. 
2. 7:07. To the west. Blue sky pale pre dawn. Some layers of pale gray thin clouds. Each tinged with pink. Layer cake. Blue gray pink. By 7:11 the pink is gone. And it’s less remarkable gray striations in sky. Temporary beauty. 
3. Poppies growing in back AND the front (where I replanted some last year). 
4. Typical fluttering confusedness in sky over Ogden of Sandhill cranes
5. 6:54 pm. Spring forward today. Now the east sky has a layer of gray clouds at the bottom and creamy pink above 

Monday, March 9

1. Moon low on horizon reaches far into bedroom thru hall
2. 10:45- many rounds of low Sandhill cranes over the school building / courtyard this morning. 
3. 12;33. Sandhills high overhead. Spiraling   The way they have of disappearing and materializing as they spiral. Sometimes black dots or shadows. Sometimes flashes of full white. 
4. On bike to work: Hawk flies low across 47th street