Date: 08/31/2003

Number: 1

Sunday 7:30 am - a check of the catalpa grove & tulip poplar - finds 5 overnighters in the grove & 3 on the poplar's east tip. Fussy strangers, they roost singly, far apart on private branches. The catalpa grove is always warmer than the area around the single poplar - poplar campers rise early, those in the grove sleep late. The hungry wave of monarchs counted (150) at 5 pm swept on further south. Cool night, 50 degrees at sunrise. The little "microclimates" of our meadow's hills are very definate, low spots were really cold. At sunset, a front moved in from the west, a seamless pearl milky overcast that overtook the swirls of dancing mare's tails that feathered Saturday's sky. A brillant sundog, focused bright like sunlight thru a prism glowed in clouds edging the front over Lake Michigan. Sundogs usually mean stormy weather in 3 days time. This morning's sky, is gray with translucent, milky layers, breaks open into stipples of fleecy clouds near the sun's rising - Gramps "mackerel

Marne, MI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -85.8

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