Noticing
solstice to solstice · (starting 12/22/25)
sunrise awareness
46 mornings
cloud perception
58 skies
Day 1: Lavender-peach with painterly blending and textures.
Day 2: A grey blanket with a skein of geese beneath and a streak of blue air in the distance.
Day 3: Glorious shadows and light over vast swaths of green earth.
Day 4: A sea of vapors diffusing and leaking sunlight.
Day 5: Pinks and purples in the morning in layers.
Day 6: Fantasy clouds with a half moon over the coastal range.
Day 7: Clouds that echo the ripples in ocean sand.
Day 8: Clouds smeared as vapors on a blue canvas.
Day 9: Sparse little friends.
Day 10: A grid of pink and purple puffs of light.
Day 11: Grey blur behind the rouge breasts of robins in the red oak.
Day 12: A blanket of mist.
Day 13: Rising from the slough and holding the coastal range in tendrils of mist.
Day 14: A smooth grey ocean in a sea of blue as stars begin to manifest.
Day 15: A mist thin enough to think a dream.
Day 16: A grey wash.
Day 17: A grey soup.
Day 18: Smears of white on blue
Day 19: A purple wide stroke on a peach canvas
Day 20: Like underwater in slow motion with glimmering patterns catching light
Day 21: Evolving brushstrokes of oceans, dragons, then a purple and pink curtain
Day 22: Pink and golden at last light.
Day 23: Denser in the valley with a blue just out of reach for the oldest cottonwoods
Day 24: Mist rolling in and out.
Day 25: Misty, then not.
Day 26: Sparse
Day 27: Sparse
Day 28: Sparse smears.
Day 29: Totally absent in the morn
Day 30: Glorious golden auras about the sun at sunset.
Day 31: Just stars at night - missing.
Day 32: Holding light after sunset
Day 33: Peachy morning smears
Day 34: Here and there
Day 35: golden then fuscha at night
Day 36: In and out in shades of grey
Day 37: Morning rouge
Day 38: Mostly grey
Day 39: Grey with ocassional breaks
Day 40: Like grey ruffled sheets
Day 41: Thick fog at daybreak
Day 42: Offering glimpses into the void, then rain, then blue, then rain.
Day 43: Grey with blue spots
Day 44: Stripes of pink
Day 45: Patterns of current
Day 46: Peachy dragons
Day 47: Gradient of peach to purple
Day 48: Grey
Day 49: Grey then peach
Day 50: Grey
Day 51: Grey with puffy textures
Day 52: Sparse on blue
Day 53: Peach streaks
Day 54: Moved in with grey
Day 55: Grey
Day 56: A blanket preventing shadows and aiding hawks
Day 57: Opened up to rain and hail
Day 58: Of glory
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tree notes
58 notes
Day 1: White oak branches against the sky.
Day 2: A fallen acorn woodpecker oak in a field.
Day 3: A weathered tree in the winds with stories of storms.
Day 4: A small scraggly tree in a field providing perch for two kestrels side-by-side.
Day 5: Michael offered mossy perches to many downy woodpeckers today.
Day 6: Ephemeral perches for the moon along the sloughs
Day 7: Precious little bonsai hugging the basalt at low tide
Day 8: An oak dips to the sided with grace and with circular arms in a ballet of meadows and slough.
Day 9: A giant friend fallen - breaking down so fast.
Day 10: Sitka, my sitka, you stand alone in your ancient years.
Day 11: A friend soaking in rain from above this year - I miss your branches.
Day 12: A fig twig with a downy friend.
Day 13: My giant moss-covered cottonwood.
Day 14: An oak tree web with stars in it’s branches.
Day 15: Michael held six crows with boughs open wide.
Day 16: A tree as an obstacle for a brawl of crows.
Day 17: Michael holding a white breasted nuthatch
Day 18: A cottonwood with green moss from head to toe
Day 19: A fir holding Jupiter
Day 20: My giant cottonwood - where are your eagles?
Day 21: Oak savannah branches like desert cracks in the sky.
Day 22: A fir shelter on the corner.
Day 23: A belted kingfisher perch in the river.
Day 24: A thin fig holding 5 crows.
Day 25: Michael with 5 crows and a sneaky nuthatch.
Day 26: Michael with 4 crows and a downy woodpecker. Later - Michael was alone as the wilber chose the umbrella over his boughs.
Day 27: A neighbor’s fir feeling extra pointy today.
Day 28: A grove of white oaks in the valley.
Day 29: An empty oak under a blue sky.
Day 30: The white oak under the egret’s flight as the last bit of sun disappeared.
Day 31: Trees catching stars in their branches, catching street light to make auras.
Day 32: Framing a doe and fawn in a field.
Day 33: A twiggy bendy tree on a drive.
Day 34: A large oak on Tabor Mt.
Day 35: My ballerina in the field.
Day 36: Michael with little grey tails running in loops.
Day 37: Rouge with her boughs over path.
Day 38: A bald cypress in winter
Day 39: The lichen on the branches - a stash for winter bounty
Day 40: A whilte oak - twisting and reaching
Day 41: A pine stashed with acorns, with its guardians
Day 42: A bald cypress with a twig full of needles at the base - a rebel.
Day 43: Morning crows in the oak branches
Day 44: A field relic still standing for the birds
Day 45: Rose cedar dropping roses
Day 46: A downed cottonwood that will be missed.
Day 47: A kestrel’s lookout
Day 48: A place for crows to chase each other
Day 49: Paper bark peeling in the rain
Day 50: A integrade flicker’s figgy perch
Day 51: Juxtaposed Sequoias
Day 52: Crows shoulder to shoulder in the oak.
Day 53: Full of crows
Day 54: Bald Cypress - still bald
Day 55: Mossy scarfs with hidden caches lie in the branches
Day 56: Three bald eagles in the tree top
Day 57: The lichen covered branches sprawl like the lichen itself
Day 58: Yellow-rummped warblers all over the oak
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