Phenology Daybook: August 16, 2020

June 13th The 164th Day of the Year   Then let us, one and all,…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: June 13, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

“Sit in your cell as in paradise,” stated the 11th century monk, St. Romuald. “Put…Read more n The post Watching Romuald appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

May 17th The 137th Day of the Year   The foolish fears of what might…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: May 17, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

I was walking Bella, our border collie, through the High Street alley this morning around a quarter after nine. The maples were turning, the redbuds and the hackberries half down, the honeysuckles full of berries. At the Limestone Street entrance, I could hear starlings and grackles ahead of me to the north, and I hurried…

April 23rd The 113th Day of the Year For winter’s rains and ruins are over,…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: April 23, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

When nodding and Canadian thistles turn all to down, then golden finches haunt the fields…Read more n The post Phenology Journal: Finches-in-the-Thistles Time appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>