Soon color will begin creeping into the forest. The unremitting gray and tan of winter in the Roundrock woods will begin to green, then the first, tiny wildflowers will dare to raise their colorful flowers to the sun. Some will have come out even before the green leaves of the trees. The duckweed will spread across the pond, soon covering the surface with a brilliant green that will mature into a more sober green as the summer progresses. The spring wildflowers will transition to the summer wildflowers. The birds of many colors will appear in the forest (or they have been there all along but only lately put on their colorful plumage). Every year I find something new under the sun in my woods. New to me, anyway. That's always rewarding because it means there is more for me to experience there. I found the stump of a cut tree the last time I was out. It's been there longer than I have been coming to the woods, but I only found it the first time recently. The green above is in the small pool below the overflow outlet at the base of the dam. Right now it is the most colorful place at Roundrock. I hope to bring you the pageant of colors all summer long. Missouri calendar:

• Listen for western chorus frogs; sound is like a thumbnail run along a comb.
• Killdeer begin arriving.

Today in Missouri history:

• Georg Wendelin Wall was born in Switzerland on this date in 1811. He came to St. Louis as a Lutheran missionary and founded a synod there that evolved and is now known as the United Church of Christ.

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