SiSi, without deer fly bites
Photo by J. Harrington
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Some of yellow goat's beard has already moved on from flowers to developed seed heads. The two whitetail does I noticed this morning have completed their transition from Winter's dun, grayish-tan pelage to Summer's reddish-gold. More and more wildflowers, especially ox-eye daisies and narrow-leaf hawksbeard are appearing along road sides. It's looking daily as if, by the time we get to this Summer's solstice on June 20, the season will be in full bloom already, rather than just starting. It'll probably be more than a month from now before we start to actually notice the days shortening. Meanwhile, whole new generations of critters will be growing during Summer time's 'easy livin'.
next Summer's yellow goat's beard
Photo by J. Harrington
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Yes, the young mothers are beautiful,with all the self-acceptance of exhaustion,still dazed from their great outpouring,pushing their strollers along the public river walk.And the day is also beautiful—the replica 19th-century paddle-wheelerperpetually moored at the city wharfwith its glassed-in bar and grillfor the lunch-and-cocktail-seekerswho come for the Mark Twain Happy Hourwhich lasts as long as the Mississippi.This is the kind of town where the rush hour traffic haltsto let three wild turkeys cross the road,and when the high school music teacher retiresafter thirty yearsthe movie marquee says, “Thanks Mr. Biddleman!”and the whole town comes to hearthe tuba solos of old students.Summer, when the living is easyand we store up pleasure in our bodieslike fat, like Eskimos,for the coming season of privation.All August the Ferris wheel will turnin the little amusement park,and screaming teenage girls will jump into the riverwith their clothes on,right next to the No Swimming sign.Trying to cool the heat inside the small townsof their bodies,for which they have no words;obedient to the voice inside which tells them,“Now. Steal Pleasure.”
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