If midsummer is on or around the solstice then this is the beginning of summer.
I remember last year feeling like the solstice actually being the midpoint of the season made so much more sense to my sense of being in my environment than the astronomical seasons did. Summer beginning now also feels far more accurate to me.
Green-up in Fairbanks is approaching. Using observed temperatures since March 1st and the forecasts for the ten days, our little model now showing a 60 percent of green-up late next week. The long term average green-up is May 8 and this year is sure to be earlier than that. #akwx#Spring2024#Phenology@CarrieinFbx@anisian@mivox@themattphelps@debmcqueen@leepetersen@dboo@Climatologist49
Poppy from the Cal Fire Sonoma Lake Napa Unit, Healdsburg, California. The lupine were also opening up at this time. More at #publiclands#photography#phenology#calfire#flowers Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs
This is an excellent @longreads article (or book excerpt rather) about #Thoreau and #Darwin (since today is Darwin's birth anniversary). It hits on so many of the major reasons why I love, and continue to be inspired by, Thoreau.
"[Thoreau] hovered between design and chance, between idealism and materialism. Which is why his argument in “The Succession of Forest Trees” is so remarkable—for Thoreau locates mystery and wonder within materialism."
"After a while I learn what my moods and seasons are. I would have nothing subtracted. I can imagine nothing added. My moods are thus periodical, not two days in my year alike. The perfect correspondence of Nature to man, so that he is at home in her!"
#ClimateDiary Once again i have to ask my perennial question here: what is normal? I just don’t know! Yet again having to acknowledge how unobservant and ignorant i am with regard to #Phenology. This time it’s trees srill having all their (now brown/orange, pretty overall) leaves. It’s almost December. Have they not normally dropped their leaves by now? I don’t know. Sme pictures from Sussex train
"In fact, the art of preserving nature may have to become almost as adaptable as nature itself, as we, along with the golden-cheeked warbler and greater sage-grouse, learn to adjust to a changing world." —David Gessner for Orion Magazine
#ClimateDiary Just saw that our (already very scraggly looking) #Laburnum tree has suddenly started flowering - not everywhere, but around 4-5 flowers across the tree. It’s flowering season is normally May/June. Is it just ours or have others observed the same? Or is it normal for them and i just didn’t notice before? #Phenology#Jahreszeitenchaos#SeasonChaos
@pvonhellermannn there’s a bridleway near my work that always has a lovely swathe of crocus in spring - they have all come out over last few weeks. I can’t remember if that’s happened before - either way when I checked their flowering time it is meant to be spring from what I found….
@pvonhellermannn We moved into our house (Georgia, USA) in August last year, and our crabapple had fruit when we moved in, then suddenly bloomed a second time in Sept. It just did the same thing again this year. No idea if this is a weirdness of this particular tree or just climate weirding. The bees are of course delighted.