Middle Season #20 - 2026

 

Sunday. 12th

1. 2:05. Home
2. 4:15. Ogden
3. 2:25. Up the hill to east Bemis. 
4. 3:25.  Cicadas. Slow. White bellied Nuthatch. 
5. 2:35. East bit of trail. Just before sharp turn to north. Batch of bellflowers and trailing off cicada. Before the bridge, lots of tall grass stained with the mud must have flooded pretty high.
6. 2:45.  To the bridge in LGP. 
7. 2:55. Harding and woodland. 
8. 3:05. Park and 41st. 
9. 3:15 almost home
10. Read Shakespeare. Water plants. GTD. Week review of blogs and journal. Guitar notebook. CSU!  
11. 5 shakes. 5:30. 

Monday 24

1. Clumps of mushrooms in the parkway. Animal hide. 

Tuesday

1. 5. Home. 97/70
2. 5:10. Ogden.  Blackberries still red. Some tall flower in the meadow forest edge has already gone to gray, beige fluffy seed. spotted jewelweed flower along the edge of the Bemus bike trail.
3. 5:20. Midway through section one of the bike trail heading to the salt Creek Bridge at Wolf.
4. 5:30. Just almost entering the clearing after section 2. Snowy egret in the sun upstream from the bridge in the back corner   Couple minutes of close encounter with a deer and skinny fawn with the sun coming through Van‘s ears in the later afternoon in the forest. The mother‘s “quite red and sleek above a woodpecker.
5. 5:40. Just entering the fourth section of the walk, but I waited a couple minutes with the deer encounter. Just passed the bridge.  Black swallowtail, butterfly iridescent blue tail in the late sun.  Indigo bunting flies by in the parking lot and then Blue Jay settles himself in the tree.
6. 5:50. End of section 4. At passageway to Wolf. 
7. 6:00. Howard and 40th. 

Th July 16

1. 4:40. Loud freight train receded to west. 
2. Cicada. Swallowtail. 
3. Smoke from Canada fire blurring all. 
4. Baby bunny in front yard noticeably bigger. Still. Only head and ears are taller than grass 
5. Tight balls if alliums in front yard are now half bigger big marble sized. The biggest ones just pink . 

Friday July 17

1. HB first to visit. Later house finch couple at birdbath. Making tiny waves circles from edge in circular birdbath. 
2. 3:50. Little dragonflies and cicadas on this 90° afternoon.kildeer indigo bunting. Monarch. Plants along path prob black eyed Susan. Over 6’. Mating dragonflies with light blue racing stripes 334 up wing. 
3. 4:00. Just off island. Pink bee bomb is the main overwhelming color in the patch of Prairie in the middle of Fuller Berg.  Lots of monarchs. 
4. 4:10. Approaching shelter. At crossroads great blue heron in. Idle of the creek. Many many ground swuirrrls. Patch of tall blue plants seem taller but losing vigor. Drying. Past prime. Hickory nuts on path under shagbark. 
5. 4:20. At the trail May flood sign. Major limb has come down on path. Revealing hollowing branch on silver maple. 
6. 4:30. Robin Hood ranch. Tiny black eyed Susan’s in the deep forest shade. 
7. 4:40. Old dam viewing area. Here you can see water is 3-4 feet lower than a couple weeks ago when it was up on sidewalk. Whole wall of these little black eyed Susan’s between spring Road and the asphalt Bike path heading to the west.  Creek covered with tiny insect circles. 
8. 4:50 back to fb sign on spring ave. 

File folder created on Sunday with list in it - time and date for key items, including reading article (included!) and podcasts (during specific days’ workouts). And morning items. Med haiku. Decisions were made last week. Time in week to “top off” specific lists. 

Mon. July 20

1. House finches at bird bath. Haven’t seen much HB action recently. 
2. HB at cardinal flower. In early afternoon 
3. 3:40 start. Walk all the way over the bridge themed around.  
4. 3:50. Ogden and wolf. Queen Anne’s lace prominent and tall and blooming along the edges. Smoke blurring Bemis woods. 
5. 4:00. At the strong turn to north on path. At Fuller Woods there’s a lot of the milkweed that is balls of flowers (thick heavy big leaves. ). but here at Bemis they appetite that’s just the flower open at the top in half circle.
6. 4:10. In parking lot on way back. Yellow green acorns growing in oak trees.   Some have full green corn. But the pin oak I walk by has a cap brown. And just the beginning of corn. High sounds in the oak trees cedar wax wings, which are high-pitched Twitter most like crickets in the slower deeper cicadas.
7. 4:20. At the turn east that leads to wolf road. Cornflower on the wolf road edge. Some brown cottonwood leaves along path.  
8. 4:30. Past Ogden.