Mid-May – A sensory time of year

Stepping out on a sunny May morning without layers of winter clothing and feelings of temperature and freshness fill the air. Every step brings greetings of songs from white-throated sparrows, ovenbirds, chipping sparrows, and white-throated sparrows along with the distinctive tapping of a yellow-bellied woodpecker.

Spring makes a daily transformation from a world of whites, grays, browns, tans, and other drab variations of snow, ice, trunks, and branches and stems.

New colors appear on the landscape from landscape plantings, but ice-out has brought expansive surfaces of blue water. Blue below and blue above on a sunny morning.