Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts

Thursday, August 31, 2017

A Calendar for the Willamette Valley


January
February
March
April -- Maple Moon (when Bigleaf maples expand their leaves)
May
June
July
August -- Blackberry Moon (when blackberries ripen)
September
October
November
December

To be updated!!

Monday, April 6, 2015

How Spring Happens Here, Part Two: Canopy closure

If we were to rename the local months in the style of Native Americans, April might be Moon of Bigleaf Expansion. Now the year's crop of giant leaves of Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) is small but rapidly expanding; now the leafy curtain partitioning interior urban forest from exterior is unfolding.

maple forest leaf expansion

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

heat of the day

First ripe blackberries, on Barbur! Oh yeah, dark expanse of heat absorbing and reradiating pavement.

Meanwhile, the sky:

mackerel sky

whispy clouds

evening sky with rays and moon