Have you seen the green?

Trees and bushes are beginning to leaf out. The edges of tree lines are softening. The North Country is slowly greening. A few wild strawberry leaves are emerging from beneath the leaf cover. An optimistic perspective seems less radically naive.

the greening has started

Photo by J. Harrington

What appears to be a female bluebird has been perching on the lilac bush in front of the bluebird house. Male American goldfinches are in bright yellow summer colors, much before mating season. Several times in the past couple of days, a pileated woodpecker has landed on our large tube bird feeder. It perches with one foot on each side of the tube and feeds from the hole in the middle. If you’ve ever seen a telephone lineman climb a polle, the bird looks sort of like that. I wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it my own self.

Country roads are accommodating their regular traffic plus farm vehicles like tractors and seed trucks as farmers get organized for spring planting. Soon spring skies will have a layer of dust over everything as ploughs and planters cross and recross fields.

As we wind down on this beautiful spring day, we share this wish: May the Fourth Be With You!!

May Day

By Tess Taylor

They go, the early flags, the gory maples—

so too the daffodils & Lenten roses.

Other petals swirl & nights warm.

 

Buds thicken and cast shadows:

in a thunderstorm

I almost forget the ice that was.

 

Narcissi suckle watery paths;

meadows heap up emerald masses.

How green & I want to delight

 

except this undertow—it pulls so fast

passing before I recognize it—

like souls in Dante who can’t see the present,

 

white lilacs curdle in pre-summer heat.

The parade I barely noticed was beginning

is already halfway down the street.

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