Bill Felker

3 weeks ago | wyso.org | Bill Felker

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature. Bill Felker: This is Bill Felker with Poor Will's Almanack for the very first week of middle spring. And it's also the very first week of the cows switching their tails moon. The second week of the sun and Aries.

1 month ago | wyso.org | Bill Felker

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature. Bill Felker: This is Bill Felker with Poor Will's Almanack for the sixth week of early spring. March 5th was the first day of Lent, and on that date, practicing Christians began a six-and-a-half-week vigil for Easter. The Lenten landscape always takes me back to my childhood and to the gray, cold days of waiting for the season to be over.

1 month ago | wyso.org | Bill Felker

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature. Bill Felker: This is Bill Felker with Poor Will's Almanack for the fifth week of early spring. White cabbage butterflies are the surest sign of the beginning of the end of early spring. And once you notice the familiar white cabbage butterfly, then you know the more elusive morning cloak butterflies, and the question mark butterflies, and the tortoiseshell butterflies, and the tiny blues are flying too.

1 month ago | farmworldonline.com | Bill Felker |Diane E. Meier

Poor Will’s AlmanackBy Bill FelkerThere is no foliage on the trees yet; only here and there the red bloom of the soft maple, illuminated by the declining sun, shows vividly against the tender green of a slope beyond, or a willow, like a thin veil, stands out against a leafless wood. – John BurroughsThe Fifth Week of Early SpringThe March 24 cold front, like the March 14 system, is often mild, and it is followed by some of the driest and brightest days so far in the year.

1 month ago | wyso.org | Bill Felker

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature. Bill Felker: For the third week of early spring. Robins start chirping before dawn this week, and here are a few of my Daybook entries about that milestone in the progress of the year. March 7th of 2012, I went out a little after seven this morning to see if I could hear the first of the Robin chorus. The moon was round in gold, setting between the trees due south, and the air was mild.