Status: posted on website Jan 2022. I’d love to work with an illustrator to finalize it and create prints - please get in touch! This calendar was generated from notes collected from 2007-2020 in Olympia, WA. I’ve since started recording these in a 5-year Hobonichi Techo.
6/6 - foxglove
10/13 - mushroom
11/15 - salmon running
11/19 - Rainier turns white, leaves off trees
12/7 - still mushrooms around
2/26 - trees budding, dandelions blooming, birds arrive at feeders (chickadees, jays)
3/12 - frogs, nettles, trees start to bloom
4/25 - fiddleheads, horsetail, cottonwood buds, nettles, hummingbirds
5/17 - maple flowers dropping, new evergreen/conifer tips, blooming: lilac, camas, irises, bugs
5/21 - blooming: scotch broom, lilac, iris, camas, Columbine, strawberry, fir tips, Nootka rose
5/23 - magnolia blooms
7/1 - foxgloves (followed by oxeye daisy), bugs
8/7 - foxglove out, oxeyes still going
Blooming: butterfly bush, yarrow, sweat pea
Berry season beginning: salmonberries, huckleberries, thimble, halal