what is so rare...

Glorious sunny day. Last day of June. Cows grazing contentedly in a field; swishing the flies away with their tails. Sun glistening off the leaves of corn. Two men playing horseshoes in Middlebury.

scorpius

Evenings at the Zen Center. Shadows of moths flickering in the light from low lights along the walkway. Flickering fireflies in abundance. The constellation Scorpius prominent in the southern sky

moon

Full moon, the strawberry moon, is tonight.

oriole

Sunny. American flags along Main Sts. in Rutland & Wallingford. Oriole in the old apple tree. Basil & parsley along the front walk. In the winter there is a time when it's so cold it seems it could never get warm again. The opposite also holds true, and that time is now.
Happy Birthday Mom.

it is the noon

Rainy. Day lilies & dragonflies. Driving to Bethel early in the morning to pick up some envelopes, 77 degrees at 6:00. Bright red tubes lined up for rafting at an outlet along the White River in Stockbridge. Three large beach towels drying on a fence near the Tweed River.
I am one
who eats his breakfast
gazing at the morning glories.
Basho
Zen Page a Day Calendar

lupines

Cloudy. Lupines are in bloom.

6/12/2008. "Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands, lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels. If they did, the weed control officer, who seldom sees a dewy dawn, would doubtless insist that they be cut. Do economists know about lupines?"

Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac

mystery

Sunny. Heading to the car on a beautiful summer morning. Swallows careening through the skies. The call of the hermit thrush; as Doug Blodgett says, like the sound of someone playing a flute deep in the woods. What is the emotion one is feeling at moments like this?

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