This week, yellow goat's beard joined hoary puccoon in the yellow roadside wildflower brigade. It's almost the same shade of yellow as male american goldfinches, but not quite as bright. Yesterday we again looked up the online color thesaurus and couldn't find a shade of yellow as bright as the goldfinches. That probably means something, but it's not clear what.
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Photo by J. Harrington
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Meanwhile, as anticipated, the dame's rocket has splashed purple in a bunch of shaded areas, competing with the drumstick allium in the cultivated flower garden in front of the house. There's also a few red columbine flowers coming into bloom. Even a few short stalks of milkweed have popped up, just in time for the monarchs?
It looks as though the wild turkeys have segregated by sex, since this morning we watched a small flock of four jakes (young toms) pecking their way through our fields and the hens we've seen during the past week have each been by themselves. Most hens are probably now nesting or watching over newly hatched poults. Next month and July we'll be watching for those poults with their hens and whitetail fawns with their does. Part of summer's pleasures is seeing the young'uns learning how to make their way in the world.
A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict Or flower presume to show In that low summer of the West Impossible to know -
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