Middle Season #24 - 2026

 

are these mallards? cicadas everywhere, acorns in the grass, first raspberries

Friday. 21. 

1. Blow the bridge at the busy York Road there’s a big yellow patch of echinacea and beyond in the salt Creek. Great blue Heron just a small stones throw from the racing traffic.? Rudbeckia hirtq or trilobia. 
2. A fat spider right in the center of a web that’s 6 feet wide 7 feet tall
3. Big frog and a ditch on the other side of the creek whack is startled when I stop walking on the path
4. Another blue heron scene from the bluff sitting on a log head, pulled down, looking like he doesn’t wanna get his feet wet
5. Another heron scene to the west of the North Island mid deep in the water
6. Very few humans today because they closed the parking lot of the nature center to repave
7. Another 3 herons in the last leg of walk… on standing then two flying. They could be some of the same of course moving when I don’t see them. 
8. Mums out for purchase at wf. 

Sat 22

1. 5:58. Sky lightening but still no color only silhouettes. HB comes for long drink at feeder. Positions himself opposite me stays long time. HBs have depleted feeder water … leaving just a 1/2 inch of viable after 6 days. 
2. Sat
3. 9:53 taking ties off camper. The tarp still on. 
4. Cicada with one wing on sidewalk furious toylike wing flapping. Making tight crazed circles. 
5. The locust tree seed  tapes gettting pale yellow. 
6. Sidewalks and lawns filled with destroyed acorns. 
7. Listen to poured over podcast w Rachel Kushner. She names pale fire. And “Jean Patrick Manchette”
8. Cicadas loud overhead at 4:45. One crawls up my leg. I get closeups.  
9. In field park. Sw side of a tree beginning to blush. Maple?
10. Kushner quote about novel best way to know someone else. 

Thursday

1 . Fat and green acorns in branches

1. On ground   Cicadas dying dead squished chipmunk. Guts out. 
2. On the bike ride home from school going up the hill from Spring rock Park. There’s grass with a very bright and spicy smell that always happens at this time of the year.

Friday

1. 3:55. Fb. A group of Canadian geese in South Creek. And leaves falling cottonwoods in Sycamore’s and Bass Woods. And admits to them falling a butterfly, going to a sunflower, a many, headed sunflower in the air also the sound of the cicadas. in the sluggish water that’s not moving long stemmed plants in the water with heart shaped leaves now with Blue flowers
2. Male deer with short fuzzy antler stubs in the bed of the creek, looking wearily at me as I pass. Sense of walking through the air, thick with cicada sound like push, pushing through the thick sounds. Major grasshopper in yellow prairie flowers
3. 4:15. Short of sh7. These tall, many headed sunflowers with their pedals vent way back stylish, leaving just the heads openly exposed.
4. 4:25. Coming down the bluff hill. Chuffs mixed with cicadas. Frogs?  Autumn weeds along the bank of the creek with bright pink, one or 2 inch seed heads. catalpa bean pods, less intensely green, some turning beige and brownish.  A few monarchs and a few black black swallowtail butterflies but less than a couple weeks before. I thought it was a small dog barking at first, but it was a great blue heron with three or four squawks almost croaks and then a few more is it locked up stream.
5. 4:35. Robinhood. Further downstream, a snowy egret stocking on the Canada geese. A woman being pushed in a wheelchair on the paved part of the path. A young woman was down syndrome, wearing a cub, tank top, cub logo tank top riding a big tricycle. A man with a wife that was far humped over walking to the car in the parking lot. Be Mrs. a Place but they’re not perfect. Humans come to play.
6. 4;45. Loud cicadas where the damn used to be.same grasses that I noted on Thursday. Smell first. On the bridge from below with the wind. Then I walk down to double check and take a pic. ClownishLy orange feet of whatever these kinds of ducks are. They don’t look like mallards in the middle of South Creek.

Sat 29 of  Aug

1. Playing peek-a-boo with the past full moon thru suffer went windows to the west. Now it’s visible behind the trees. 
2. The big neighborhood hemlock has opened brown pine cones. Inch long?  And also tight green ones. Last years and new ones? Or a plan to spread seeds for a long season?
3. Pelecanos