This first volume of A DAYBOOK FOR THE YEAR IN YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, is a…
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Bill Felker’s daybook for November 23 — the Sun enters Sagittarius and Late Fall deepens in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Field notes from 1984 to 2020 track cranes, crows, witch hazel, and the last leaves of autumn.
I woke at four this morning to katydids chanting, and took inventory of the external world through the day — dogbane pods reddening, wood nettle holding late, buckeye leaves browning, herons circling above hollow fog.
Bill Felker’s daybook for November 25 — one of Late Fall’s darkest weeks, with glimpses of spring amid the stripping away of the season, plus field notes from Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1979 to 2019.
Bill Felker’s daybook for November 29 — a meditation on Late Fall’s accumulation of absences, with weather data and personal field notes from Yellow Springs, Ohio spanning nearly four decades.
