Some bright days. Sudden heat. Brilliant greens.
Wildlife Sightings this week:

 

• the back end of a huge snapping turtle as I disturbed him when I waddled through the shallows of Beatitude Pond
• an enormous green frog. Let me pat his back, but objected to me picking him up and leapt out of reach
• a crayfish, who slipped out of my hand
• a yellow bird, a finch, chirping happily in a maple by the front of Beatitude Pond
• nearly a dozen yellow swallow tail butterflies feeding off the damp driveway, swirling up into a mad haze of wing, black stripes and flashes of yellow when I encouraged them to move away so I could drive across the driveway
• half a dozen or so turkey chicks (what's the proper name?) waddling across the road after mom, as traffic stopped - all two cars of it!

Connect the Dots: Climate Change Awareness Day

I couldn't interest anyone in our town in a conversation or activity about climate change today so after participating in the quarterly trash pick-up with the local conservation commission, I took some photos around the property. I still wonder if the extremely mild and dry winter led our resident beavers to do more building than usual, and chopping down of trees. One of the beavers is quite big, maybe eating too much of that bark!

Today people around the globe are sending in photos of where they have seen climate impacts. We had a very dry early spring, but now the water in the pond is over the top and a waterfall is cascading down the old stone dam again into the brook below. The forest is looking a bit more lush again.