Center for Restorative Process
  • Home
  • Resources
  • Training
  • About
    • Restorative Schools
    • Our Team
    • Nature Connection
    • Testimonials
  • Contact
  • Blog

Beginning June

6/3/2012

1 Comment

 
Lots of baby birds around today. This morning I saw three tiny finches, about the size of hummingbirds and flying like butterflies. In the afternoon I was in the grove. I heard the Kites that have been nesting there whistling frantically; they kept it up for about 15 minutes then an answering voice came from a tree about 100 yards from the nest...a young Kite, probably newly out of the nest. After it answered there were a few more calls from the parents then silence.

The buckeyes are in full bloom, and the grasses are in between green and brown. Today a storm front came in and tonight, one night before full moon, there is a strong wind blowing across the mountains. I walked down to the grove in the moonlight. I was expecting to see the owl that lives in the neighborhood but did not...perhaps it is too windy. The wind was actually producing a howling sound. 

The thistle below is Teazel, a medicinal plant used for treatment of Lyme Disease. Common along roadsides and ditches. 
Picture
Picture
The Aralia (spikenard) is flowering...I think it just started; if was flowering last week I didn't notice.
Picture
Picture
Michele and Kirsten and I walked down to Rocky Hill Road where I collected some very dry scat, presumably coyote, that was almost entirely hair and bones. A tiny whole jawbone is visible on one side of the scat. While walking with Jeanna the next day we found a place where the owl has been roosting, and a couple of large pellets were on the ground below. 
Picture
1 Comment
Tiffany Spencer link
2/9/2021 03:41:52 pm

Looved reading this thanks

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Picture

    Author

    Amos Clifford, Guide and Restorative Council Mentor; trainer in restorative justice, restorative dialogue with nature, and circle-keeping and the way of council; mentor.

    View my profile on LinkedIn

    Archives

    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012

    RSS Feed

Center for Restorative Process
145 Mountain Meadow Road
Santa Rosa CA 95404
707-278-8742
restorativeprocess@gmail.com

All Rights Reserved 2015, Center for Restorative Process
  • Home
  • Resources
  • Training
  • About
    • Restorative Schools
    • Our Team
    • Nature Connection
    • Testimonials
  • Contact
  • Blog