Middle season 23 - 2026

 

Alliums blooming furiously, swamp milkweed in FB, rampaging mushrooms during all this heat and wet, acorns developing.

Wednesday Aug 11

1. After yet another storm with straight force winds of 100 mph and tornadoes nearby more trees and limbs down around the neighborhoods
2. Locust tree in Northeast Park has long spiral bean pods green 12”
3. Alliums blooming well now in lots of yards. 

Thursday Aug 12

1. The ground is so wet from the rains that the hanging baskets begin to droop. 
2. A wren takes refuge from the rain on the bottom branch of the dogwood. Tiny but bigger than hummingbird. 
3. 2. Chicken Avocado Quinoa Bowl
5. 🛒 Ingredients
6. 🍗 1 grilled chicken breast
7. 🥑 1 avocado
8. 🍚 1 cup cooked quinoa
9. 🥒 1 cucumber
10. 🍅 1 cup cherry tomatoes
11. 🌿 2 cups spinach
12. 🫒 1 tbsp olive oil
13. 🍋 ½ lemon
14. 🧂 Salt, to taste
15. 🌶️ Black pepper, to taste
17. 👩‍🍳 Method
18. Add quinoa and spinach to a bowl. Top with chicken, avocado, cucumber, and tomatoes. Finish with lemon and olive oil.

Friday

1. Groups of little mushrooms taking this week of rain as an opportunity to pop out of school shrubbery areas. 
2. FB 4:10 start. Several monarchs, a great blue heron standing on a small thin island in soft Creek 71° dewpoint. Cardinal flower blooming across the ceeek
3. 20: just off the island. A lot less color in Prairie area, more yellow along the sides, but one V bomb bee balm newly blooming, has several bees on it.  Big Creekside tree slumped over pulled 75% out of the ground in towards the creek bending over 45° roots exposed.  Stems of grasses, turning khaki where last week was the bee bomb.
4. :30 intersection. Heavy air. Green smell. Hothouse greenhouse. 
5. :40. Top of hill. Strange Brain fungus on forest floor. Huge polar foundation profusion profuse patch of small yellow echinacea at the bottom of the hill. Undeterred could help a catalpa tree hanging beans (seed pods)parallel with the stream hanging out across the stream.
6. :50 short of RH ranch connection. Small turtle in a wet thin limb in the creek. Dinner plate sized mushroom. Vibrant. Water in pools in the forest floor on both sides of the gravel path. Another new mushroom. 
7. 00: almost where the dam used to be. Bees collecting the last nectar on pink blooms mostly dried.any many mushrooms of different t sorts popping up. Things long hidden underground emerging. After days of rain and humidity. 
8. :10. Also fresh looking wild ginger up along between the asphalt path and Spring Road.

Sunday

1. Bemis. 86/74. 
2. Allium abuzz in afternoon with pollinators. Bees butterflies bugs. 

Tuesday 18

1. Japanese lilac dropping seeds on driveway
2. Acorn rolling down street after crashing down

Wed

1. dead cicada in bucket of water. Dehumidifier water. 

Th. 

1 half moon overhead. D shaped. 7:36 PM. 

2 earlier. 6 pm. HB at feeder in sunlight. Wary. Low supply of feeder juice.