Middle Season #13 - 2026

 

Friday may 1

1. 5:18. First cardinal. Loud and clear. 
2. Sparrow hanging out and protected and sheltered by the new little leaves of the courtyard oak tree. 
3. Giant alliums blooming on way to school bike 
4. Courtyard oak still has tiny leaves. 3” long. But also has wibly 12” green stems. Mostly with side green stems from them. 
5. Frighten the great blue heron again and he flew off. Light drizzle. Not even drizzle
6. Photos for AP class
7. Cormorant with a little bit of red on his jowls flies away from swimming in salt creek when he sees me. 
8. Yellow rumped warbler sound on Merlin
9. May apples are predominant now flowers open with the yellow middle the white petals 18 inches tall throughout the forest areas
10. Purple phlox. 
11. Purple paw paw Blossom’s
12. I see the amazing redhead of the woodpecker and he quickly skirts around, so he’s quite the small tree trunk between him and me. Red bellied woodpecker. 
13. Trees have almost totally leaked out in Oak Creek just passed still pretty tiny leaves, but in general, the great green machine machines before they have started their summer’s work
14. Rufous is red brown in color
15. Really no sign of red buds on the branches, but there are a few places right on the trunk that they feel like they’re the blossoms are newly coming in
16. Take a look at rooms teachers when I send master schedule. 
17. Letters of appreciation for education week - some each day. 
18. Students do one hard thing a day. How hard it is to play guitar every single day, but knowing that if you don’t, you’re gonna lose it and you’re gonna have to redo yesterday.

Sat may 2

1. Ginkos have catkins. Or some of them at least. In AH planters. 

Sunday may 3. 

1. Breeze blowing raspberry bush, flipping the leaves to reveal the paler green
2. Cardinal on small branch of blooming pink dogwood. Then when a friend flies by she follows to another tree. 
3. Kitchen orchid has 3 blooms. Small orchid has one tiny white. 
4. All the trees down the block (or most) fully leafed out and lush. 
5. Many trees wanna get their blooming done first before their leaves come out other is like the dogwood have the leaves out while the flowers are out. Some trees have really short blooming periods and the dogwood has a really extended one.

Monday May 4

1. Stop to smell lilacs
2. Blooming horse chestnut 
3. Purple and white tulips still blooming at freedom house
4. Maple tree with tiny seeds. Tan wings. 1/2”
5. Sparrows in newly leafed oak. Harder to see. A couple 
6. INGREDIENT

• 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
• ⅓ cup chocolate protein powder
• ½ cup peanut butter - (i like to do heaping ½ cup)
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 3 teaspoons water

Tuesday May 5

1. I woke at 4. The birds were already singing
2. At 5:24 a light rain joins the sound of the cardinal and his backing group
3. 7 AM study chill spring rain in early May but the robins don’t mind. Red Wing blackbirds don’t mind.
4. Rain heavier now. Rooster tails of water coming behind cars. Sounds of rain on car roof
5. Siegel. Korn. Responding to discomfort. Go to fridge. Naming the dragon. Sit with discomfort. 
6. Neruda. You can pick all the flowers but you can’t stop spring 
7. Yesterday sor 31 no 23. Learned they 16. Did 30 mins today only on this song and learned until the end. 36 bars. 
8. Charge speaker 
9. Check my sauerkraut that I started on Monday. It overflowed the mason again past the screw cap. When I open it there are bubbles in the water. 

Wednesday May 6

1. Last year, the backyard, silver maple had zillions of helicopters. This year there are very few just a few on the ground. I noticed because they’re not filling up the gutter guards in last year. I had to take a couple trips up on the ladder to.remove them
2. Heads of blooms on wild indigo
3. Many tiny voices in attic fan of starlings 
4. Profuse flowering of dogwood. Turning pinker
5. Columbine flowers purple and up. Not quite blooming. 

Thursday May 7

1. Green basswood flower. Long flat petal
2. On the way to work on my bike see purple iris is fully blooming wolf road
3. Wood drop or snow and anemone 
4. The bell rings at Monroe school. Kids sprint from all over the fields back towards school. 
5. Kids goes by in black electric mini bike. Pops a weak wheelie. 
6. The new sound of breeze in leaves. Distraction sussuration 
7. Take a look at clover. 
8. Hemlock on walk at HC has open fingernail sized pine cones and modest 1/2 inch new growth. 
9. First poppy opens today. Just one. Also saw orange poppy bloom in the side yard along the way home. 
10. On the way to school the cut grass frosted in spring rock park. 35*

Friday May. 8

1. The starling baby chicks getting louder this morning. I see one bird leave. Can’t tell exactly when they begin chattering. 
2. Two kinds of horse chestnut blossoming wildly— one one and one bright pink red. 

Saturday May 9 

1. 4 orchid blossoms open on shelf above kitchen sink
2. Old man in straw hat looking like he might begin gardening soon 
3. Weigelia starts to bloom. First one on each plant. 
4. Raspberry blossoms opening 
5. Still just one poppy. 15 others as pods. 3 pods in front. 
6. Japanese lilac “blooming” with nondescript green flowers 
7. Sparrows enter the starling baby house the mother comes to chase them away
8. 3 male sparrows loudly courting a female making a racket. She seems pretty mad and makes threatening gestures at one
9. Some tulip stems getting thin. Some turning tan 
10. Cardinal scares from bird bath at 7:02 pm. Then he chirps loudly from the patio light string. 
11. Before this lots of sparrows at birdbath sipping to get water. 
12. 7:06. Sparrow with long grass in beak hopping on patio furniture. 
13. Small squirrel hangs out on patio looking for something to do. 

Sunday May 10

1. 5:15 quarter moon to the south. About to move behind neighbor house 
2. 7 am coyote prancing north along sidewalk on Ellington. 
3. 4 more poppies open.  I see sepals (?) totally popped off on the ground
4. Lots on starling birds in the AM. Hungry!!
5. Added rows in 3 gardens. Spinach beans, beets, little gem lettuce along side radishes in NS raised bed. 
6. The lavender growing quickly and leggy. It smells Great!
7. 2 sparrows came by to get a drink male and female. One by one. Just 4 feet from JG. 
8. First hummingbird of The Season. 7:53 pm. I put out the feeder today. 
9. Same small squirrel in patio visit in the evening.