this weekend i had my first seasonal sightings of the following: red bellied snake, baby snapping turtle, fireflies, june bugs, and dragonflies. it reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from aldo leopold, who is essentially, in this household, a favorite quote factory:  “Many of the events of the annual cycle recur year after year in a regular order. A year-to-year record of this order is a record of the rates at which solar energy flows to and through living things.  They are the arteries of the land.  By tracing their response to the sun, phenology may eventually shed some light on that ultimate enigma, the land’s inner workings.” –Aldo Leopold, A Phenological Record for Sauk and Dane Counties, Wisconsin, 1935-1945

dragonfly

saint paul, minnesota