Signs of Spring (post them here)

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Lilacs in the dooryard.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring....

Passing the visions, passing the night,
Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades’ hands,
Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,
As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,
I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

My favorite hockey team The New York Rangers choke in the playoffs.

I called to a Redstart and he came down and landed next to me.

Loving all the cherry blossom pictures!

The French Open begins in one week!

Kingbirds flycatching over the river.

Darmok: Did you make that poem? If not, where's it from?

Turning Earth

These wheels within wheels
These leaves folded in leaves
These wheeling winds
--and winding leaves
those sprockets
-- from those seeds
this spiral shooting
--from that rainfall-
What does a turning earth
--say to it's axis?
How should a melon say thanks
Or a squash utter blessing?

Carl Sandburg
From Timesweep

I do believe I just heard a Killdeer flying around and calling, at 2:52am. I have never seen one in this neighborhood.

It's not the astronomical first day of summer, but it's Memorial Day weekend in the US, which marks the customary end of the school year and the beginning of the summer vacation season. The birds have almost all finished their migrations and have chosen their nesting territories. High school and college graduations are coming to an end. If you have any last signs of spring you can post them here, and then pack things away until next year.

The flowers are in full bloom and there is pollen everywhere.

The French Open is in full swing and Rafael Nadal has begun his campaign for La Decima successfully.

Everything is so beautiful and green and the birds are happy.

It is warm enough for me to swim in the pool.

There was a thunderstorm last night, with lightning.