mid-spring

A foredrawn conclusion that summertime will go by so fast, very little will get read, clutter clear will be sluggish, not enough time spent going along paths close to the beach. We must not be so unwilling to go ahead and go along the paths and see the ants and chickadees.

sparrow

News article about the endangered owl controversy, does the sparrow that leaps on to the side of the planter and lands back on the sidewalk see the photo of the owl on the front page of the paper?

intellect

Years ago I read in Jacques Barzan about intellect - a category of individuals and their pursuit. Their behavior, a human performance, is different from their pursuit. And the category challenges the pursuit by dailiness. Blogs are diaristic and free and antiintellectual.

yesterday

Although it really was Tuesday yesterday, the cloudy wind in the leaves is about long ago. It can even be about the song Yesterday.

nora alice in the night

Oh, roar a roar for nora. Nora Alice, in the Night.
For she has seen aurora borealis burning bright.
(Walt Kelly)

pink trees

Now there are pink trees with flowers. I want to Link to the International Geophysical Year, it will be fifty years this year and next.

vintage plastic horses

Used to bring the horses out and play under the lilac bush.

kinglet

Golden crowned kinglet among branches and another year an empty neighborhood with few tall trees, a high hill beside it, from a porch flew a ruby crowned kinglet up from the warm sun on the street toward the high hill.

a rodent at the window

As I looked here and there into several books this swirl of fur appeared on top of the new soil in the new larger pot for the small tree. It could see me, it looked right at me and dug into the new soil in the new pot a little.

lilac flowers

Flowers of purple out on the lilac bush. The song from the trees of many themes, sung together.

pale yellow tulips and daffodils

pale yellow tulips, pale yellow daffodils one camelia placed on the lawn