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End of Week 8: leaves are out on the Guthrie plum. (And there have been leaves out on the new elderberry stakes since the grass seeding day.) Lots of sweet gum balls fell Week 8 as well.
Week 9 begins with a 3 am wildlife cam shot of a rabbit and a deer in the meadow. I wonder if the camera is set too high for just the rabbits to set it off. The Monday cat release (a little after 6 am, 33°F) is moon lit, with Arcturus and Vega, and some star that might be part of the big dipper. Bird song and maybe, maybe, frog song in the distance.
On Friday i first worked in the yard, flame weeding the driveway until the tank gave out, then i wanted to weed a section to sprinkle seeds in. I was slowed down by discovering so much coriander/cilantro growing. I'd been thinking about getting seed for it, but here it was! I started weeding around the herb, taking yarrow sections that were growing into the bed and transplanting those to the slowly developing wildflower bed west of the driveway. There were so many plants growing close together: i've tried to replant them --still fairly close to each other but not quite as tightly. I hope the rain helped the transplants settle in, but i think it might have washed soil away.
Over the weekend i went into town a few times: the red maples are bright against the overcast sky, and in town several saucer magnolias are blooming. Really!? When i come home i gave ours a careful look.
Saturday night i walked to the mailbox under the stars, following a bright satellite moving south to north across the star studded sky. Heavens Above's track for Tiangong then was very different. Not sure what i saw. Sunday morning dawns with a fog thickening in the woods and the last quarter of the moon glimmering low in the south. Birds and frogs sing. The state climate office claims we will have warm weather through mid March, which could mean lots of having to cover the blueberries when seasonable temperatures return.
No tiny bluet or trout lily sign as of Friday.
Lilac leaf buds broke by Monday, 26 Feb -- only a few had broken so perhaps i didn't miss the start. Leaves on the Guthrie plum but not the others.
The solar power also increased over the week with 19.2 kWh on the 25th, 21.0 kWh on the 29th. The last time power generation like that occurred was Oct 2nd (18.2 kWh) and Sept 28th (19.0 kWh). It's still a good ways off from the equinox: I assume leaf coverage in the fall makes the power generation fall off faster after the equinox.
Wildlife cam observations include deer, squirrel, rabbit, coyote. https://airtable.com/appkrnb2MjpvcsLGZ/shrOmq0SpL05MVkNN We had a vole in the house, thanks to Marlowe bringing it in. My iNaturalist observations included Acris crepitans Northern Cricket Frog https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=judielaine On Sunday i identified a Cope's Gray Tree Frog by its call from the the little artificial pool.
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With sitting here yet again I'm starting to compile a plants-to-be-planted list for when I can finally get back into the dirt. We've been talking about trees/shrubs with our front neighbor Miguel to act as a bit of a privacy screen between the houses and are looking at Nellie Stevens or maybe Recurve Ligustrum.
I've even starting finding things for my flower beds I want - Moonbeam Coreopsis is HIGH on that list, I love them =)
And I want Elderberry here on the property. I have a big front yard area that isn't used at all, I want plants damnit!
I've been reading my book - while not an overly religious person (the whole God thing is hard for me to accept - I'm more of a higher power/something out there person) I find the concept pretty easy to understand - we always called it KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid LOL. Find the joy, get rid of the junk and gardening/plants is definitely a joy for me. My highlighter is getting a work out =)