Spring Snow

I was sorry to hear yesterday that my cousin Mark has passed on.

In Shawnee, Oklahoma, the snow is accumulating. I have my crops covered.

black and white

A Black-and-white Warbler has been singing at Whitetail Glen for a few days now.

Vernal Equinox

Yes, I'm on the porch again. It's a little chillier tonight.

In Pottawatomie County this morning there was a very brief rain and more grassfires.

I attended the Oklahoma Sustainability Network meeting in Edmond. On the way in I watched a Cooper's Hawk take a Cedar Waxwing.

clouds

There are thicks clouds as far as one can see, but they have relinquished only a few drops of rain. There have been lots of Common Grackles on my deck today.

Roserock

Yesterday Daniel and I planted cylindra beets, Choctaw-Chickasha eight-row corn (only two rows), spinach and purple carrots from Baker Farms in Missouri, shogoin turnips, and dwarf blue scotch kale.

I'm still here.

I'm still at Whitetail Glen. Someone left a light on in my car. It sat for two days and two nights and now it won't start. Now, there are worse places to be stuck. There's a nice porch here, with lots of birds flying around. The weather is perfect. I drank my only beer and I have no food, but I do have water. And, you may observe, I have an internet connection. My phone also ran out of electricity, but not before I made a few phone calls. I entered midterm grades and paid my electric bill. Bird species I have observed today include Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Blue Jay, American Crow, American Goldfinch, Fish Crow, Eastern Phoebe, Pine Siskin, Bewick's Wren, Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Field Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Mourning Dove, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and American Robin.

Whitetail Glen

The Fish Crows were moving today.

Half Moon

It's windy and warm today. I need to get out and pick asparagus, but I have papers to grade.

Today I took the zoology class out to the lakes. It was very windy. At Shawnee Twin Lakes we saw two Bald Eagles enjoying the gale. Down below the dam (past the sign that says "restricted area") we saw a nice diversity of duck species.