Spring storms in

This week’s storms disrupted the harvesting, washing, packing schedule at our CSA. We’ll plan on collecting our share box tomorrow. Tonight we’ll cross our fingers that the storms in the forecast become a kinder, gentler, less damaging variety.

spring storm clouds

Photo by J. Harrington

This week we'll split with the Daughter Person and Son-In-Law the following from our spring greens share:

• ARUGULA
• BRENTWOOD LETTUCE
• KALE MIX and,
• SPINACH

A male rose-breasted grosbeak showed up at the nectar feeder today. There was a stare-down contest between him and a male Baltimore oriole. I’m not sure who won, I had to let one of the dogs out. So far we haven’t seen any scarlet tanagers, but most of the other usual suspects have been accounted for. Local wetlands and fields have a number of swans, Canada geese and sandhill cranes. Local travels are much more enjoyable with the prospects of sighting one or more of the large birds or, as we saw today, in the middle of a field in the middle of the sunny afternoon, when they should have been discretely resting in the shade, five whitetail deer. I think it’s too early for fawns to have dropped and definitely too soon for fawns to be following does.

Trees have erupted in green as leaf-out compensates for lost time. This week we’ve gone from no leaves to lots of leaves beginning to emerge. Colors are returning to the trees and in the trees as migration continues. It’s no wonder this time of year makes us feel alive and full of life. That’s what’s occurring all around us.

Spring Thunder

Mark Van Doren - 1894-1972

Listen. The wind is still,
And far away in the night—
See!  The uplands fill 
With a running light. 

Open the doors.  It is warm;
And where the sky was clear —
Look!  The head of a storm
That marches here!

Come under the trembling hedge—
Fast, although you fumble. . . . 
There!  Did you hear the edge
Of winter crumble?

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