Hiking the Huckleberry Trail and entering into endless fields of fervent flutter-bys, ravishing and delightful; full of brilliance. It was shocking how many there were, ba-jillions… floating, squirming, fighting, fleeing back and forth in all sorts of flight patterns; anxiously in search of sweet August nectar before the summer sun sets. When Kenai was first …
Raindrops: so rare during this sweltering drought; I happened to walk outside just after the falling “too-short” storm cycle and found this: water. Stuck to plants, slipping all over, little spider pools, like nature’s slip n slide; tiny fairy balls of liquid glass. Look close, you may find yourself in the delicate reflection. We all …
The paintbrush of August; Harvest season: when our ripe fruits need picking, seed pods are dispersing, and nervous energy of sunshine months is at its highest. We are in the thick of things, some of us still drastically flattened by the curve of life, others riding the jagged waves— to distance or not too distant, …
I never knew the unique but prodigious Solomon’s Seal could be found in Wyoming.❤️ For this post, my interest lead me to find where the name comes from. The Greek name Polygonatum yields a scientific explanation: poly “many” and gonu “knee.” The knees for some botanists seem to refer to the areas between the indentions …
“What’s out now” roadside bouquet edition 💐 Plucked from the edge, trimmed thin: Hitch-hikin’ hillbillies waiting for their lift, clover-ing blown berries, do-little daisies, roadie hipsters hiking the hips of their rose; it’s these last days, just a few more- almost there… Falling naps of autumn we all can’t wait for. Wandering petals, asking asters. …