A Phenology Resource
A Memoir in Nature and a Handbook for the Month, Being a Personal Narrative and Synthesis of Common Events in Nature between 1981 and 2023 in Southwestern Ohio, with Applications for the Lower Midwest and Middle Atlantic Region, Containing Weather Guidelines and a Variety of Natural Calendars, Reflections by the Author and Seasonal Quotations from Ancient and Modern Writers
By Bill Felker
This memoir gathers together quotations about time and nature, meteorological commentary made up from my lengthy obsession with tracking the weather, extensive notes about common events in nature, syntheses of these events and astronomical information based on my years of writing almanacs. Although I have organized my writing on a scaffolding of backyard natural history and observation, I am not a naturalist and have had no training in the natural sciences. All of what is contained in the Daybook is the result of my search for myself and for meaning.This particular aspect of my search began in 1972 with the gift of a barometer.
By Bill Felker
The format of all my notes in this daybook owes more than a little to the almanacs I wrote and continue to write for the Yellow Springs News between 1984 and 2017. The quotations, daily statistics, the weather outlooks, the seasonal calendar and the daybook journal were and still are part of my regular routine of collecting and organizing impressions about the place in which I live.
By Bill Felker