谷雨
It has proven to be very appropriately named. We have had protracted, soaking rain: substantial, but not excessively hard. It is the time of the year when grain in the field has a growth spurt. We have had a few warm, sunny days in between, and they help grain (and lawn grass) grow, too. Overall, not a bad time to be a grass, or a wild rabbit. A cottontail is a regular visitor to my yard. And juncos always move about in pairs now, and just can't keep silent. The ones we see here are the Oregon variety; apparently this species has a lot of variability over its range. The binomial is Junco hyemalis, or the winter junco, but they are present year-round here. Linnaeus was aware of the species, and placed it in the finch genus, which indeed it resembles.
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