I stepped off a train in New York City this week and saw a small yellow sign on the platform.
Mind the Gap.
I genuinely wasn’t prepared for how wide it was.
I came home to find a gap in my own garden. And also, one in this space too. We planted a meadow in 2017. A rain garden in 2018. I started writing about it that same year. And for a long time, not too many people were reading. I just kept showing up.
This newsletter has grown faster than I ever expected lately, and each time I sit down to record and to write now, I feel that gap…between where I started and wherever this is going.
If your garden looks more green than colorful right now, you’re not alone.
A hard freeze two weeks ago didn’t help matters. And the spring ephemerals have already finished their moment. What you’re left with is a lot of green and not much to identify yet.
There’s a name for what you’re seeing. And a reason it exists. Episode 27 is about that gap.
Audio recordings of the wood thrush provided by xeno-canto.org:
Citation
Paul Driver, XC771930. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/771930.
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
