Phenology Daybook: May 27, 2020

 I have always been partial toward spiders. My mother, a stay-at-home mom who spent a…Read more n The post On Micrathenas and Orb Weavers appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

April 28th The 118th Day of the Year Late Spring: Wild Phlox, Sedum, Ginger, Miterwort,…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: April 28, 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…

September 1st The 244th Day of the Year   First September touching puffballs-in-the-grass (like moons)…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: September 1, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time…. John Keats,…Read more n The post Almanack Essays: Slow Time appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

As the last leaves of the year come down, seed catalogs arrive in my mailbox,…Read more n The post Hiding appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>