Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Let the rainy season begin. Thunder in the forecast for tomorrow. That means Rigel slinking around, barking at the sky, and, with Sollie and Gertie here, amping up the possible opportunities for red in tooth … Continue reading
Spring Waxing Bee Hive Moon The weather has turned gray, inclement, wet. The snow continues to melt, but not wholly disappear, as if it has gotten used to the yard and wants to stay as long as possible. Where the … Continue reading
Spring(?) Waning Bloodroot Moon Well. About a foot of new snow. A foot. Heavy, heart attack snow, too. It’s hard to imagine a less welcome weather pattern at this time, with the exception of a hard rain. Oh, yeah, we … Continue reading
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Rain beats down and Rigel whines. We’ve had a couple of dogs with phobias about thunder. Tira was the most problematic. She preferred to climb through open car windows in the garage for some reason. I … Continue reading
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon After weeding Kate and I took off for lunch–at Benihanas, not nearly as good as our own, much closer, Osaka–and a visit to Lights on Broadway. A bit of dithering about where the order was, where … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Planting Moon Today I looked up at the sky while weeding. Gray clouds covered it all and rain drops had begun to splash on the brim of my hat. The sky and I, it felt, were sad and … Continue reading
Spring Awakening Moon Checked on the bees today. They needed syrup so I put in two pitchers full. They also needed another pollen patty. The colony looks healthy. Lots of bees hard at work. No stings. I have a few … Continue reading
Imbolc Waning Wild Moon While eating breakfast this morning a loud noise, like a souped up street cleaner, disturbed my cereal. I asked Kate what it was. She thought it was a souped up street cleaner, or some other machine … Continue reading
Spring New Moon Lunch with Paul today at Origami. When I lunch with friends, I find we often go back to the same place we first went, even after years and years. I had lunch with an old friend last … Continue reading
46 br steady 29.67 2mph ESE dewpoint 44 Spring New Moon (Growing) A light, but steady rain falls. A cold rain. The pre-emergent and the cygon I applied yesterday will get a chance to work themselves thoroughly into … Continue reading