Waiting for Godot

Air temperature 52 F, cloudy, calm for the newspaper walk. Bike ride planned for after the morning school traffic.

Tuesday vernal report

Wild calla and rhodora flowers in the bog, first Canada mayflower, cultivated apples starting to bloom while the ornamentals are dropping petals.

Roadkill list -- gray squirrel, red squirrel, chipmunk, and woodchuck. One live woodchuck seen out at the cemetery and gray tree frogs trilling near an upland vernal pool. Whole group of red-wings harassing a crow that was down among the cattails, presumable active nest-thief.

Got out on the bike, more wind than I would have preferred. Did not die.

15.26 miles, 1:13:35

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No sign of Macavity on my afternoon walk. Lilacs on the verge of becoming oppressive, nowhere near as bad as the black locusts will become.