Clouds started to move back in from the Southwest late yesterday and this morning is gray. I hear crows and geese and doves. The geese flapped upstream, then came back then changed their minds. Then suddenly everyone came to the feeder: house finches and a goldfinch, juncos, cardinals and titmice. The sparrows were out on the patio and then a rabbit joined them. A big black bird with white wings swooped down, passed by and landed on one of the neighbor's pines. That's when I saw it was a pileated woodpecker.
It may be starting to clear now. Mergansers are out on the creek. Coming up on noon the sky is mostly blue and the sun is come-and-go. But later in the afternoon the clouds returned. The sky looked like white corduroy then went to a featureless overcast, thin enough to show the sun. A few pink camellias are still blooming. The rosemary is recovering from the snow and the jessamine has continued to bloom. Another daffodil has blossomed. And down the street a red maple is blooming.
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