Noticing
solstice to solstice · (starting 12/22/25)
sunrise awareness
97 mornings
cloud perception
117 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
Day 59: Grey
Day 60: Greyish
Day 61: Rainy
Day 62: Painterly puffs
Day 63: White blanket
Day 64: Fairly featureless
Day 65: Rainy grey blanket
Day 66: Thick fog melting into sunshine
Day 67: Peach and purple in the end
Day 68: Thin pink shawl
Day 69: Layers of texture
Day 70: A gradient of pink to blueish purple
Day 71: Grey blur
Day 72: Dark indigo over the mountains
Day 73: A white keyhole leading to a blue sky.
Day 74: Connected puffs
Day 75: A hazy glow caressing the sun
Day 76: Sparse
Day 77: Rainy fog
Day 78: Grey opening with hail
Day 79: Grey and rainy
Day 80: Dreery and dark clouds
Day 81: Dreery and dark clouds again
Day 82: Grey and rainy
Day 83: Thick, then low, then sparse
Day 84: Lines of gradient shades
Day 85: Colorful, then gone
Day 86: Colorful puffs
Day 87: Waves
Day 88: Layers of color at sunset
Day 89: Colorful waves
Day 90: A comfy cover
Day 91: Cloud rainbow arc
Day 92: Haze of pollen
Day 93: Like dragon scales
Day 94: Grey blankey
Day 95: Sparse
Day 96: A contrail floated past saturn
Day 97: Sparse and high
Day 98: Grey and hinting of rain
Day 99: Hazey beauty washing over the moon
Day 100: Grey
Day 101: Grey and bumpy
Day 102: Sparse in the evening
Day 103: Foggy to sparse
Day 104: High up
Day 105: Dancing wisps
Day 106: Smears
Day 107: Sparse
Day 108: Sparse
Day 109: Floresent lines of peach
Day 110: Peach clouds to rainbow
Day 111: Drizzly grey
Day 112: Rainy blobs
Day 113: Dissapated cover
Day 114: Grey
Day 115: Opening to the morning
Day 116: Morning glow
Day 117: Smeared purple haze
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tree notes
117 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
Day 59: 5 crows in my little fig
Day 60: A large friend down by the pond
Day 61: Crow friend picked the lichen off of Michael
Day 62: Stations for scrub jays along the road
Day 63: A sequoia in cottonwood soil
Day 64: Fig suport for a swarm of bushtits
Day 65: House finches on tiny twigs
Day 66: Ginko tree with moss ornaments.
Day 67: Giant friend at the edge of the meadow.
Day 68: Rouge waved with a single winter’s leaf
Day 69: Holding a rookery for herons
Day 70: Topped cottonwood with an owl in her nest.
Day 71: Sequoia ridges pulling to the sky
Day 72: Budding cherries and flowering plums
Day 73: A wooden keyhole leading to a blue sky.
Day 74: Un-balding cypress
Day 75: A bard owls grove with piles of pellets
Day 76: A fernskirt with a great-horned in the topped tree.
Day 77: A bared owl in the thick grove
Day 78: Budding trees everywhere
Day 79: Oaks in their moss
Day 80: Vine Maples in our city
Day 81: The sound of branches in the wind
Day 82: Gum trees dropping in preparation for summer.
Day 83: Downed in the forest
Day 84: Chopped down for unaffordable housing.
Day 85: Trillium at the base of firs
Day 86: Trillium blooming at the base of maples
Day 87: A racoon’s ladder as I passed.
Day 88: Wood duck nest in a cottonwood
Day 89: Bluebird perches
Day 90: Little cedar growing
Day 91: A gum tree calling to climb
Day 92: A cedar taking root.
Day 93: A tree full of soggy house finches
Day 94: A tree cleared of moss with two crows throwing it all over a just cleaned yard.
Day 95: Giants Downed in the forest among fairy slippers
Day 96: Moss written code up an ancient cottonwood
Day 97: Slough snags for nesting
Day 98: Little trees in the nursury
Day 99: A pink-blossom cherry tree with a small nuthatch going in and out of a hole with petals in her beak.
Day 100: Moss at the base - evidence
Day 101: Cherry blossoms in the beaks of myrtle warblers and nuthatches
Day 102: Starlings all the way up.
Day 103: Holding owlets
Day 104: A new fig and a new dogwood in our morning view
Day 105: Sitka in the sedge
Day 106: A little maple - needs a pot.
Day 107: My little dogwood
Day 108: An elm sprouting from all of itself
Day 109: Glorious pacific dogwood out my window.
Day 110: A little fractal leaf on a sappling
Day 111: An new maple
Day 112: Blooming willow
Day 113: Little sumac
Day 114: Little tree that needs a pot
Day 115: Willow’s fading tufts
Day 116: An oak that has reached out over to touch
Day 117: An oak with a courting junco.
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