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| BEAKED HAZELNUT MALE CATKINS... |
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| ...FEMALE FLOWER |
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| PUSSY WILLOWS IN FULL BLOOM |
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| AND IT WAS A BIG DUMPSTER DAY |
Sunday, 9;00 AM. 41 degrees F and warming up. Wind variable and light from the N at ground level, with scattered clouds moving in from the W at high elevation. It is hazy over the Islands and the ice pack is still prominent southward in the channel. The humidity is 77% and the barometer has started to trend down, now at 29.94". Tomorrow is predicted to be cold and rainy, so this is a spring day to be savored. There was little evidence of migrating small birds as Buddy and I strolled along this morning. Those that were with us yesterday have evidently moved on, still seeking spring.
Spring is finally here, ice or no ice, and lots of plants are blooming, maybe a little late but blooming none-the-less. The native beaked hazelnuts (
Corylus cornuta) are in bloom, as are the native pussy willows (
Salix discolor), which are finally in full flower, the golden yellow anthers at last shedding their pollen.
Dumpster Day was a busy success, and I made a number of trips; first the big stuff, and then odds and ends that I finally, reluctantly, decided to relieve myself of. I maintained my self-discipline, resolutely declining to pick up that great, almost-new "whatsis" that someone else had just divested themselves of.
However, one man's junk is another man's treasure, and the pickers were standing on the sidelines like jackals at the feast all day, ever ready to snatch that perfectly good "whatsis" before it went into the dumpster's gapping maw.
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