blooms

It's been a strange growing season. The other day Allyn mentioned that the lilies on the bank are starting to appear. She said that they usually don't show up until July. It had seemed to her that blooming was late earlier in the year, but now things are blooming earlier than normal. The other day I saw some Queen Annes's Lace which you normally don't see until August.
The black locust trees are one of my favorites. They usually bloom at the end of May which they did in northern Vermont. They didn't bloom at all down here. If the irises flowered this year, I didn't see it.

road crews

Cows in the pastures. Deer in the fields in the evenings. Fox coming into our yard when making his rounds. He acted like he owned the place. Road crews of summer appearing.

lilies

Farmer's market and yard sales in full swing. Bunting for the Fourth of July appearing. Season of lilies underway.

dragonflies

Dragonflies appearing. Tiger swallowtail butterflies swirling in the back field. Summer stock opening in Weston and Dorset. Concerts in the park in Rutland. Clark stayed up through the whole performance the other night.

Distant mountains reflected
in the dragonfly's eye.
Issa

winter

It is now officially summer. It has actually been summer like for weeks now. But our neighbor Pete just had a load of wood delivered across the street. Winter is never really far away here on the other side of the creek.

bugs

Yesterday was the kind of day that people come to New England in the summer to experience. Driving home from the Zen Center at night, moths and bugs in the headlights. The nearly full moon rides very low in the sky this time of year with the sun being very high in the sky. The opposite, of course, is true in the winter.

hot

Ninety degrees yesterday. That's hot for Vermont. Parking cars in the shade. AC on. People wading in brooks and ponds.