2010-There is a change in the bird’s behavior I can’t pinpoint- a restlessness and could it be they are beginning to sing spring songs? Just in case they are ready to start nest building, I’ve begun putting out little bundles of dryer lint.
There were little holes in the snow under the maple and I thought they must be melting snow. But when the snow disappeared, the pavement was stained; definitely sap.
Out at the reservoir the eagle pair sits quietly together on a high branch next to the nest.
But it’s still so cold, it’s easy to lose patience with it. Best to cut forsythia branches to force and not think ahead to how long it will be to gentle blossom time.
Yoga seems to be about just trying to maintain the status quo these days. Progress consists of not going backwards. I miss a week because of schedule changes and find myself gone sadly stiff. Warding off the chill with hunching shoulders, my own flesh seems to get in the way of flexibility.
Yesterday (February 6) an eagle was on the nest while the other sat beside. If it takes 35 days for the egg/eggs to hatch, that’s around March 13.
In the spring night sky
The moon holds hot Venus tight.
Down here we turn green. Houseplants; the olive tree and the orange tree have begun to sprout new leaves. 2013-Snowstorms, icy rain, forty seven degree days, winter, spring? Someone reading the weather mentions that the daily average temperature is just a combination of extremes and just like that it dawns on me that there is no such thing as winter or spring. I have been noticing in myself a kind of irritation when the weather doesn’t fit my expectations for the season and now see that for what it is; a way to avoid just being present and taking each day as unique and never to be repeated.
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