Weeks with a million shades of green, bursting leaves and flowers, heavy rains and warming sun, but most of all the this entry in for the perfumes of plants delighting our often under used noses with the sweet smell of growth and freshness. Take a deep breathe and enjoy.
April 27th, 2009:-7:30ish PM Dogwood and Elderberry blooming and budding, respectively. Maples are opening their leaves. Reminds me of moist crinkly baby hands. Redwing blackbirds call. Somewhat overcast. With Ruby (5years old) ARBB. Abandoned (?) yellow bike "Olympian" near swing Maple.
April 29th, 2009:-I've been gone for three weeks is in the desert & oh, how Olympia has come alive in that time. Thanks be to our communal rebirth.
May 1st, 2009:-Sunny! Warm 72 F° (?) 3pm (been here since ~1:30 pm). HIGHLIGHTS: Towhee foraging in the leaves & fallen limbs of this Maple right here near Fir St. Entrance.
Female deer sunning on grassy slope not 50 years from Edison St. Entrance. Turned my back and she melted silently away. Lots of different singers: Chickadees, sparrows, robins-one evidently collecting for a nest. Saw buff-yellow bird walking along small branches hunting insects to pick off. Bumblebees, white butterflies and orange and brown butterflies, dragonflies (BIG ONES).
- Deep Gratitude for this exquisite park. Brown bird in muddy draw with up tilted tail. Over and outJ
-Saw a few dark headed juncos in the wooded area between here and Fir St.
-Bald eagle flying over park heading east. Saw 2 little snakes ♥
May 5th, 2009:-8pm 2 Barred Owls
May 8th, 2009:-Partly cloudy 50's calm. Spotted Towhee, Wilson's warbler, song Sparrow, Violet Swallow, Chestnut-backed chickadee, Stellar's Jay, Pacific-sloped Flycatcher, Townsend's Warbler, Rufous Hummingbird, Robin, Crow, Black capped Chickadee, House Finch. Vine Maple leafed out and Stunning. FTW & SRC
May 9th, 2009:-7:30pm saw heron flying over park heading North
