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The pileated woodpeckers seem unusually active this spring, or perhaps that's just because I've been taking more and longer walks. Have you seen one, a woodpecker larger than a crow with a flame-red crest of feathers and white stripes on the wings? Go out and watch. It's okay, even, if you live in town, because once in my backyard I looked toward the busy street and there, on a telephone pole, was a pileated woodpecker. One may see anything anywhere.
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More closely than ever, marking the cycles of rain sun, rain.
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One may see anything anywhere. But there are ways to increase the odds.
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Recent trees: beech, black cherry, white pine, chestnut oak, hemlock. Maples, but I need to see leaves before I say species. Same with the hickories (mockernut? pignut?), though I should be able to tell from the shells halved and piled up by squirrels.
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Pay attention to the trees.
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A fine country, if one looks to the lichens, mosses, ferns for guidance.
"A fine country, if one looks to the lichens, mosses, ferns for guidance" has touched me. Thank you.
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