Quietly sitting on deck listening to at least three kinds of bugs. Best guess is grasshoppers to left, crickets to right, and something that sounds like a cicada in patch of woods. Are there even cicadas in Vermont? Along with observing weather lore, I recall something about crickets telling the temperature. Count number of chirps in 14 seconds and add 40. To be accurate, the crickets would need to make 40 chirps in 14 seconds!
On the deck, the temperature is nice. Not too humid today. Teddie is lying downing the sun which means too hot to chase the ball.
No trees in the wood patch are changing color yet although some maples on the way to school have started (August 26). The sappy white pine closest to the house dropped all of its brown needles last week.
The intertwined maple and pine trees sway with the breeze. Both look green and super healthy. The pine doesn’t have long fingers are the end of the branches that indicate new growth.
Lilac leaves are green. No flowers, they have been long gone since June? They’re the first flowers during spring. Brown leaves are beginning to accumulate on ground below.
The honeysuckle is beginning to look dried out. The berries are gone. Like the lilacs, mostly green leaves. Some are yellow/brown-snapped branches or dried out?
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