Growth

Mon Apr 27, 6:30 PM. 80 degrees, everything growing. dead spider husk on a wisteria stem. glory flowers faded into round beach ball black seed pod. fertile? rustling. beech buds fatter. downy pecking on beech tree, belly on a branch. white lozenge on its back, red cap somewhat divided, yellowish whitish beak, claws gripping the branch, pecking next to a bud. far side of beech (SE) open leaves, red rounded oddly large next to all those weeks of closed buds. wisteria bud gone green. quince leaves 1/2 inch. lower field greening. 3 x 3 plant getting established. palm tree plant separating its leaves -- butter n eggs? cleavers: like bedstraw but smaller, only 6 leaves in a whorl usually, spiny hairs along the stem edges and leaf edges that catch. Grass forming new shoots that clasp the old ones. I take off my Tevas: barefoot for the first time. Red wings rule this pond, they and the grackles are everywhere, and a passing hawk is harrassed as it passes by.