Middle season 8- 2026

It snowed several days.  It was extremely windy other days.  It was 14 degrees one morning and 68 another afternoon.  High temps in 30s, 40s, 50s, 20s, 60s.  The tulips and poppies paused their growth.  Above the heart of a lilac flower, maple flowers (you could find many on the ground after rain(3/12 below), stick and ice sculpture by a downspout at the HC landscaping shed, yellow flowers cornelian cherry.  (I should go back to see these in field park).

Wednesday 3/11

1. Humid this morning. Windows wet with condensation. 
2. 1/2 moon overhead past median while driving to work. 
3. 6:06. Heavy rain and hail. Gutter of garage overflowing. Big hail. Close to golf balls. 
4. 6:30 now. A bird begins to chirp (long) after the hail and rain. 

Thursday 3/12

1. Rain falling the entire first hour of day. Gentle constant. 
2. 7:14. 3B. Amidst the rain the traffic on 55th rushing to work, the energetic - manic - electric school sign. There is the Robin. Standing patiently. 
3. 12:03. Cold rain. Wind I take a short walk outside. See maple trees leaving red buds on sidewalk. First time seeing that. 

Thursday 3/13

1. The C shaped moon. At 7:05. Over my left shoulder as I drive west. 
2. The bank of purple clouds to the east. Solid and massive. Above Orange then pink sky. Brightness behind escaping from the top. Where there are no houses and you can see further upThe road, there’s brightness below. 
3. Now the sun brightens the tips of some Of the bunched clouds. 
4. There’s lots of red meatball (maple?) blossoms on the ground, but also if you look up, it’s definitely fringe the ends of the branches and is especially pretty against the blue sky

Friday 3/14

1. A morning too windy for the RWB at school 
2. 3B. In between the deep thrashing bass rumble of wind gusts individual plaintive calls by a single  RWB 
3. 9:55. Somethings happening with these super gusty winds. The oak leaves, long thought gone, are swirling up past my window like birds. 
4. So many leaves in the hallways. 
5. So many robins. Dozens. In the softball field. 
6. Afternoon a very windy gusty day and everything is blowing the leftover grass seed heads me the limbs
7. There are alarming, squeaking, squealing sounds from the big trees in high winds salt Creek is filled to the limit, moving speedy. The grasses in the middle Prairie area are matted in the tops of green along the salt Creek shore dress.
8. As I walk towards the south, the heavy fast water, sparkling, and blending in the late afternoon, son attractive
9. The bean trees. You could help us along, thin seed pods clicking in the wind.
10. Look for novels about self invention, self reinvention across all genres maybe do a book club first quarter
11. Water flowing bricks down the side creek around the island more than I’ve ever
12. Leaves filling up the trampoline
13. Blocking Redwing blackbird hundreds of them down by the flat bridge and then saturating upstream saturating saturating upstream saturating upstream susurration. 

Sat. Mar 14

1. 7:00. A pinking of the eastern sky. And immediately a cardinal speaking. Trying out a variety of songs from repertoire 
2. Movie. Allies. Brad Pitt 

 Sunday 15

1. Lacerating rain at 5:46. Meat loaf and potatoes in oven. In the middr of guitar practice. 
2. 6:13. The torrential rain has filled the bird bath

Monday. Mar 16

1. New snow on ground overnight. Wind whipping. 
2. The speeding commuter train whipping up a huge flurry of light snow during and after it speeds past
3. 7:18. See the pine trees again frosted with snow for awhile 
4. 8:51. Window sills iced with snow again. 
5. 1:50- still driving snow. 
6. Joshua Achiron – Climbing (Calligram Records)

Tuesday March 17

1. 15* and sunny. RWB doing their trills in the trees along the parking lot. 
2. Swan’s way.  Almost constant reference to paintings to describe swan’s feelings 
3. Thefunny looking ice of the sudden big drop to deep Freeze. 
4. 7:21. The lowing lighting the slight depressions and texture of the new snow like mountain ranges foothills from a plane. 
5. 12:27. Gutters racing with water even though it’s 21 degrees. 
6. Lots of icicles everywhere. Connecting cars to ground. 
7. 25* but still all the green grass is mostly. Green again w snow melted. 

Brand 110. Also Momentum about p85-90

Wednesday 

1. many spring flowers and bushes wait patiently during the cold spell. Not growing
2. One bush shows some yellow buds. 
3. The water from the roofs into the downspouts creates some ice sculptures around bush twigs. 
4. One squirrel drinks from bird bath for 60 seconds. More?
5. Another squirrel takes a lazy leap from lawn furniture to bird feeder, sees there’s nothing there and casually leaps off. 
6. 5:38. A robin jumps into the birdbath not along the rim and drinks. Houston the edge watches the lowering sun contentedly. Chest feathers puffed. 

Thursday

1. two pine trees at the corner. Their tops without needles. But the rest fully alive. 
2. 7:08. Very active. RWB. Salt on windshield. 35 going up to 61 today. 
3. 12:45. Warm day again. Shc in the sky. Heading northwest. Was 33 now 55. 
4. 12:40. A4 w bl and pebbles. 
5. 6 robins hunting in deep right field. Another in foul territory. 
6. Not many minutes between the fading of sound from one part of the sky and the warbles of various pitch coming from the Sw. Maybe a bit to the east though.   Wheeling in circles. Waiting for fellow travelers. Did I see three groups form into 1?  Did I see a group split off?  Hard to tell for sure. 

Friday

1. 10   At the old kiosks after I’ve walked the island.  Some flabby leaves growing at the base of beige old stems. 
2. 20. Made it to shelter 7. See an eastern bluebird. Along the creek
3. 30 several inland lakes. I’ve made it below the church at the bend. 
4. 40. Back to bridge to nature center. Rwb now and along the way several holes n ground looking new b newts?
5. One last oak tree with lots of leaves still on it by the other parking lot it’s now 50minutes into the walk and I’m past the parking lot past the sign with the deer on it. Looking into the sun over the bridge the waves look quite pretty the sunlight playing on the rapid water.  There’s a tiny sparrow sized birds nest far out facing the salt Creek by the. Place in the dam was
6. 60 wet head of a mallard shiny green in the bright late low afternoon  sun. The smell of woodsmoke. Rwb singing over each other. Collage. Passed the bridge almost back to the nature center.
7. The grass and clover by the other shelter is distinctly green. Shelter 13
8. Teeny tiny bird fluttering in the bar branches above. Some tiny warbler. Not much bigger than hummingbird