MY VIDEO OF THE ACRE STREAM IN SPRING

Yesterday the fast running stream that runs NORTH from the gate towards what we used to call The Acre Pond ...this stream had budding crocuses and water lilies..Beside it was one quite furtive female Red Winged Blackbird.  I have finally realized how truly furtive the female Red Winged Blackbird is.  I have "heard" them these past few days.  But I only saw this one.

MT. ST. ALPHONSUS SHOWS "SIGNS OF SPRING"

Along the stream that goes from the SOUTH entrance of Mt. St. Alphonus flowing beneath our cementery and below the pastures NORTH towards what we called "The Acre Pond", I found more "signs of spring" which are, I think buds below the water of water lilies.

AND HERE COME THE TINY CROCUS SHOOTS!!!!

SPRING SIGNS OF LIFE-COMPOSTING WORMS

Yesterday was the first time when the temperature here in Esopus (The Mount) hit 50F.  I had not been able to turn over my compost pile since January since everything had "iced over".  But yesterday there were many signs that spring is "on the way".  I had put about 1000 fallen apples in my compost pile besides the peels and coffee grinds etc from The Mount's kitchen last summer.  The "slimmy friends" have been creating great topsoil for what may be my "final planting" here in my "Sylvester Feeley Abundant Life Garden".  However, depending on whomever may lease The Mount as of next January-2012, and if I am chosen to stay and work pastorally in this Ulster County area, I might just be able to "make a deal" with the leasees to continue working this garden.  I hope so.

SYLVESTER FEELEY ABUNDANT LIFE GARDEN-COMPOSTING

THE WOODCOCK--ANOTHER "SIGN OF SPRING"

I have never really seen a real, live woodcock.  The truth is that, so far, I have had two "senior moments" in which I could not recall its name.  I just remembered that they appear in Central Park, NYC when spring is soon to come.  And I also remembered that they have a  beep, beep sound like and insect.  So here is a three minute video on another harbinger of spring....the woodcock.