Spring is emerging, pixie cups are growing amongst the green mosses, pussy willows are starting to bud, Junco’s are back along with the Sandhill Cranes. The frogs grew from two lone spring peepers three nights ago, to dozens last night. All these new sounds are confusing my pup Ella. Born May 10th 2008 the days and nights are all filled with new sounds and experiences for her and she is realizing she is not as alone, way out here, as she thought.
The return of the wildlife is always heartily anticipated. Woodcocks arrived March 31st and I then noticed moths the next night. Foxes that cruised through the backyard a couple times a day, have not been seen for about three weeks. I guess their territory has expanded as the snow has receded. Ella had a very nervous reaction last evening, I think a bear may be sleepily stumbling out back already. Late last summer and early fall she reacted like this when a bear was about. She barks and charges forward to beat a very hasty retreat and always looking at me for assurance. The next rain free day I am going to wander over the rocks and through the trees and see if I can find any tell-tale signs.
Seasons change, wildlife cycles through our yards, plants wake-up, grow, then sleep a long cold dreamless hibernation. When we change with the seasons, different activities, different foods, different plans and goals, we cycle through movement, great growth and times of deep rest. Each cycle dependent on the one before. Each cycle dependent on moving into the one arriving on the doorstep. Without this flow we stagnate with life and energy blocked. Even in times of deep rest there is movement towards the wakening and growth. Hands in the dirt, planting a seed, a little seed filled with Pure Potential, we aid in releasing the energy allowing the seed to become everything it was meant to be.
Earth Day is a once a year celebration to rejoice in the movement, growth and restfulness of nature and life, every day. When a good thought and deed is born through the Earth Day celebration it has the Pure Potential to take root, rush for the sunlight, and cycle through our lives, every day.
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Where do you live? Sounds like a zoo. Whats a Woodcock?
ReplyDeleteIt's a bird GS, a bird with a beak, a long beak, better to pick off and munch on those pesky black flies and mosquitoes that seem to be everywhere here right now.
ReplyDeleteHi Susan and best wishes! to you and Nature's Garden Heirlooms from your friend and neighbour Orest. I'm just back from my morning walk with Wendy and in spite of the cold, cloudy and mosquitoey conditions, it was still a treat to be in that lovely natural environment that we're both lucky to live in. And thanx to my cotton turtleneck, corduroy shirt, mosquito headnet and tight fitting vest I was able to keep those pesky insects at bay -- WOOHOO!
I see the chives and lupens are close to blooming and the bees will like that. It seems like there are more bees around this spring and if that's true, it's great news for gardeners. Strawberries (wild and not) are flowering like crazy although Sudbury's favourites, blueberries, are a bit slow.
I still haven't put out my started plants but I'm hoping mid-week will be safe to do so. What do you think? The "full moon in June" has passed and that's the signal to go, isn't it? With snow on the ground in Alberta right now, I'm not so sure, lol.
Hi Green Sudbury, 80 acres in Wahnapitae, and it is a zoo, a natural zoo! A Woodcock is indeed a bird as Orest said, it is a shore bird which nests in thickets and is active at night. You might have heard them in the dark with their raspy springtime 'beezp'. At dusk the males fly up high, often 70-100 ft, making a chippering trill with their wings and then they plummet with a bubbling warble. Hey, you gotta give it to the male Woodcock; he gives it his all in mating season. I like the plummeting part, it’s pretty impressive.
ReplyDeleteHi Orest, you sound pretty bundled up there. The blueberries are indeed budding and flowering, one of the few reasons the blackflies don't drive me back down south. That and the dragonflies they feed. As far as the moon goes:
ReplyDeleteDate: 12 June 2009
Root Capricorn
Waning gibbous
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Now is a good time to sow root vegetables, berries, bulbs, onions, biennials, and perennials.
...but that does not mean that it will not snow in 2 days!