Middle Season #25 2026

 

Alliums have lost their color, picked a big handful of raspberries from backyard on 9/8, the earliest of rudbeckias are drying, the new sycamore in the parkway is shedding its bark

Tuesday

1. Maple helicopters tiny. Down Ellington. 

Friday. 9/4

1. At FB. 3 pm #4. With a tiny bit of pink tp. 93 and 74* DP Goldfinch and small sunflower, some bluebird corns on the side sidewalk of the parking lot. Cottonwood leaves brown piled up along the edge of the trail.
2. 4:10. Grasshopper, springing from my approaching step the prairie in the middle, getting brown or many of the grasses, pure khaki or brown stems now. milkweed pod on the ground, spilling its soft guts.
3. 4:20. Sh7.   Dry, brown leaf hanging suspended mid air probably from a spiderweb 10 feet down from a tree, gently, twisting in the breeze moving in and out of the sun.  Strange chuffing from various places in the forest as I move up the hill.
4. 4:30. Whole curves northeas no t bank blooming with smallYellow echinacea. A heron and a snowy egret in the same patch of water just upstream from the nature preserve Heron standing on a rock in the sun egret in the shave of the bank stalking downstream.
5. 4/40. Yellow blooms, unbated big swats of them along the darker eastern part of the forest preserve in from way above cottonwood sounds leaves in the wind in a slight hot bree. down where the damn used to be another Heron stately standing in the water, among the rocks, cooling his feet, striking poses to be more stately and a nearby big rock across the stream, a duck just sitting on the rock.
6. 4:50. The special-needs adult men come to rest by the shelter, also in the shelter and older men and women on a first date, holding hands getting intimate, and then one of the adult special-needs man takes off his wet shirt, revealing his naked underneath
7. I see of blooming golden rod some of those little plants something oats, sea oats? Yelllow is the main color. Rudbeckia. 
8. 5:22. 92/75*