Ecological calendar
Apr. 25th, 2009 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sqwookSo I ended up not looking at my 2008 ecological calendar as much as I'd hoped I would, yet I do love the seasonal play of color and light in words.
- celeste - sleet - bluster - trill - bliss - bloom - zenith - simmer - flourish - leave - shadow - ember - celeste-
...Distant light. Night reigns. Moons blaze and stars flicker. Sun tracks low on horizon, yielding short, grey days. Arctic air descends from the pole. Wind intensifies cold. Animals huddle, shiver, or withdraw into near-death sleep to survive the year's lower temperatures. Snow now covers half the land. Lengthening light liquefies ice. Heavy rains scale down to intermittent showers. The thaw begins. Plants, insects, animals wend their way up to Earth's surface. Quickly light increases. Earlier dawns bring longer days with longer dusks and later nights. The Sun's track rises with stronger, more direct rays. Ground warms and invites saps to rise. Movement quickens. Insects appear, with birds on their trail. A green tide of grasses rolls northward. Buds swell. Sound rises. Colors beckon. Scent entices. Nesters produce innumerable eggs. Most vertebrates give birth. Light speeds the expansion of life on the Earth. Sun at zenith radiates energy creating all Earth's food, green-leaf chlorophyll, in abounding growth. Dazzling blooms lure insects to frenzy - sweet fragrances pervade a humming, buzzing, chirping, peeping cascade. Dew drench from water's cycle spawns air zones thick with seeds, wings, and spores. Fertile fields throb with hatching, crawling, feeding, and the pupa wings once again. Sudden lightning sets tree crowns afire, bringing ground fire for forest life anew. Lower sun brings darkness quickly. Cooler nights precede first frost surprise. Sap descends amid fruit fall - berries, nuts, and cones - abundant seeds for next orbit's needs. Migrators amass, feed, and restlessly chatter. Leaves flame and drop, make food and shelter. Insects dig down or die. Anticipation fuels overwintering animals to eat, build dens, and hoard. Molting, morphing, camouflage: adaptations for coming change. First snows come to quiet land. ~ Distant light...
- celeste - sleet - bluster - trill - bliss - bloom - zenith - simmer - flourish - leave - shadow - ember - celeste-
...Distant light. Night reigns. Moons blaze and stars flicker. Sun tracks low on horizon, yielding short, grey days. Arctic air descends from the pole. Wind intensifies cold. Animals huddle, shiver, or withdraw into near-death sleep to survive the year's lower temperatures. Snow now covers half the land. Lengthening light liquefies ice. Heavy rains scale down to intermittent showers. The thaw begins. Plants, insects, animals wend their way up to Earth's surface. Quickly light increases. Earlier dawns bring longer days with longer dusks and later nights. The Sun's track rises with stronger, more direct rays. Ground warms and invites saps to rise. Movement quickens. Insects appear, with birds on their trail. A green tide of grasses rolls northward. Buds swell. Sound rises. Colors beckon. Scent entices. Nesters produce innumerable eggs. Most vertebrates give birth. Light speeds the expansion of life on the Earth. Sun at zenith radiates energy creating all Earth's food, green-leaf chlorophyll, in abounding growth. Dazzling blooms lure insects to frenzy - sweet fragrances pervade a humming, buzzing, chirping, peeping cascade. Dew drench from water's cycle spawns air zones thick with seeds, wings, and spores. Fertile fields throb with hatching, crawling, feeding, and the pupa wings once again. Sudden lightning sets tree crowns afire, bringing ground fire for forest life anew. Lower sun brings darkness quickly. Cooler nights precede first frost surprise. Sap descends amid fruit fall - berries, nuts, and cones - abundant seeds for next orbit's needs. Migrators amass, feed, and restlessly chatter. Leaves flame and drop, make food and shelter. Insects dig down or die. Anticipation fuels overwintering animals to eat, build dens, and hoard. Molting, morphing, camouflage: adaptations for coming change. First snows come to quiet land. ~ Distant light...
