Joy
The coneflowers (echinacea) at the edge of my plot in the community garden are attracting a lot of butterflies and bees. Standing next to the flowers, I’m enveloped in a cloud of flight. It...
Monthly Archive: July 2024
In the blueberry field
We are in major blueberry harvest season. Spending time in this beautiful field near our camp. It’s wonderful.
It’s muddy
I like to take pictures of the satiny garlic cloves after they’ve been cured and cleaned (example here). Today I decided to take pictures of an earlier phase. It’s been wet here, but the...
An important day
A Substack newsletter by Alexander Chee* alerted me to this date. It’s the day Lauren Oya Olamina starts her diary in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. I pulled the book off my...
Garden days
The squash is on the move. It’s going to outgrow its space and spread out everywhere. It’s becoming impossible to know what’s going on under the cover of the foliage. Maybe flowers? I planted...
Moth and note on comments
I found this beautiful moth on a flower at the community garden. I used Google to identify it as a Virginia ctenucha moth. I love every feature of this insect: her dusky wings, iridescent...
The mysteries of the hydrangea
Last summer Sam alerted me to “something blue” in the border next to the driveway. I investigated and found a little hydrangea bush with a single blossom on it. I’m not a huge fan...