Filling a Day of Social Distance – 4/8/2020
/Continuing the blog post series prompted by COVID-19….
Here are the unique activities for yesterday:
Hearing the phoebe first thing in the morning. I am hearing a phoebe outside my office window every morning as I begin my day. Maybe it’s in the sycamore. Maybe its nest is nearby. I know from the time that the sun has just come up this morning but the clouds are hiding it; it’s too dark too look for the bird and try to get a picture.
Cleaning off the covered deck furniture. With the temperature forecast to get into the 70s in the afternoon, I cleaned off the table and chairs on the covered deck in the morning so I could spend time there in the afternoon. Everything was very dusty since it hadn’t been used over the winter. The furniture is over 20 years old and had been on the covered deck since we got it. It is undercover but ‘outdoors’ and I noticed there are some bubbles in the paint on the metal parts. It probably needs to be sanded down, primed, and repainted…which I am not enthusiastic about attempting.
A neighbor has a deciduous magnolia in bloom and it held its flowers in the storm.
I recognized the redbud. ‘Cauliflory’ is a recent vocabulary word I learned from a tree tutorial; it means that the flowers are on branches and trunk…not where the leaf buds are…and that is how redbuds bloom!
There were several kinds of maples in various stages of producing seeds.
When I got to the pond, I noticed several flowers nearby (dandelions being everywhere but not always so thick as near the pond).
Catching up with the Cincinnati Zoo’s Home Safaris:
Links to my previous “filling a day of social distance” posts here.