A Full Summer's Day #phenology

On this first full day of Summer, we have discovered that we have, living under our front porch, not one, but at least two baby bunnies. For the first few weeks of June, we only saw one baby bunny at a time. To plagiarize Shel Silverstein, we had Runny Babbit, the presumed mother, living under that same porch all Winter, enjoying snack after snack from our Christmas greenery that was decorating the porch and steps.

Runny Babbit's Winter home

Photo by J. Harrington

Now that we're into full-fledged Summer, what with whitetails nibbling the tops of the bushes, and rabbits eating the lower branches and flowers, we're lucky there's any plants left to water. There is some good news emanating from out behind the house in the "wet spot." The blue flag iris we planted a few years back has come into bloom during the past few days and we think we noticed a couple of swamp milkweed plants growing nearby. We could have some happy butterflies sometime soon. Both plants seem to be a couple or three weeks later than usual coming into flower this year, as just about everything around here has been this year of the cool, wet Spring. Good thing those baby bunnies had a porch roof to help keep them dry and warm.

Runny Babbit eating Summer's clover

Photo by J. Harrington

The Funny Bamily

by Shel Silverstein

Runny fad a hamily,

Matter of fact, he had

A sother and two bristers,

A dummy and a mad. 

His mamma fed him marrot cilk

And parrot cie and such,

And all of them were happy

In their cozy hunny butch.

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