08-13-2023 FRIDAY
Freshest cool air
Drizzling but not light enough to disappoint
Saw the prettiest black and white woodpecker and a northern flicker (the bird my previous cc english teacher talked about liking to watch!! i saw it!!! i get it so much theyre so pretty and i love the sounds they make! marvelous.)
Chipmunk friends and a solitary honeybee
Sat up from my special fallen tree perch (RIP to the branches and bark I have destroyed on it) to find a cute little stinkbug (maybe a nymph? it was so small and oddly colored...) on my shirt. Let it onto my fingers and it flew off. Red?????

11-30-2023 Thursday
Angelic wintery brightness
Prints proofing the existence of people, dogs, birds, deer, squirrels. So many, many lives. Found footprints leading to the tree perch; snow brushed off at the bottom of it.
Energetic black squirrel scurring across with something in its mouth
Two golden leaves glitering from the sun in a dead landscape. Brittle stems and brambles from what once was a field of yellow petals. Reminded of flowers I didn't take cuttings of or didnt't watch closely enough.
Took a closer look at the trail. Lichen & tree huggers clinging tightly. Fallen branch held by others, dappled with disease or missing bark. Mushrooms fused strongly to stumps, resting on the precipice of death together.


02-01-2024 Thursday