I walked down to the corner to mail a letter.  It was so hot there were puddles of sulfur in the street.

OK, OK, there were puddling sulfurs in the street.

No brimstone, just butterflies.  Still damn hot.

I went to Kickapoo this afternoon.  It was still a little cool, forecast high of 60°F, but the sun was out.  I went backwards around the north Riverview loop, and it was warm enough by the little bridge to actually take my jacket off and catch a little bit of the sun in just my T-shirt.  I got into the woods, along the rugged "hard" branch of the ( Read more... )

I went to Kickapoo this afternoon.  I took the Out and Back to the haul road, out to the pond overlook for my sandwich, and then came directly back because it had gotten late.  More butterflies: another mourning cloak and a bunch of the anglewings with green hair on their bodies.  A dragonfly in one of the marshes.  Fox sparrows, a Carolina wren, ( Read more... )

Spring is really coming.  Lots of birds about even though I didn't get out for my morning walk until well after 9.  I think I heard a meadowlark.  I think I heard a Carolina wren.  I was surrounded by a flock of house finches for a while.  I saw one phoebe by the bridge.  There were two yesterday and one was singing.  Best of all, there was a ( Read more... )