Blooming in the door yard time

Some of the local fields are still being prepared for planting. Others have corn emerging already. Most of the trees have attained full leaf-out. The local river, the Sunrise, is back into its banks. With luck, we may get to enjoy a few days that approximate normalcy.

Many dead branches were collected from the yard today and burned in the burn pit. The CSA share was collected this morning, which is when we made the observations about farm field status. All in all, our plan for the weekend has worked so far. 🤞 Tomorrow is targeted for mowing and playing.

I’m looking forward to the arrival next week and thereafter of increasing numbers of dragonflies. The mosquitos took anything like fun out of today’s choring. Even while wearing a permethrin-sprayed light hoody, the bugs were often in and around my eyes. On the other hand, it did feel good to be outside and poking around without coming down with the chills.

soon lilacs will look like this

Photo by J. Harrington

We’re now about a month from summer solstice [Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:57 am CDT]. Shortly thereafter days will again begin to shorten but for several months, we’ll enjoy summer weather before the temperatures begin to noticeably decrease. For now, it’s time to take pleasure in lilac season and crab apple blossoms.

Lilacs on My Birthday

By Joyce Peseroff

The flowerets look edible before they open,

like columns of sugar dots on tiny strips

I bought as a child. Hard to bite the candy without

some paper adhering, as adding machine tape will

to large, red numbers. Lilacs are like that: another year

unspools without major accomplishment,

while I question "major" and "accomplishment."

And when I find in Costco those clusters

of pointillist pastel, I hope they will become

someone else's nostalgia—honorable emotion

propelling Ulysses toward Ithaca, and a woman

to set lilacs in her dooryard as her mother did.

 

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