August is so close; just about here. The season is changing. The blueberries are almost cleaned out, both by discovery by birds and the simple fact that they are done producing for the year. But the tomatoes are coming on fast and the bullfrogs fill the night air. It’s always a little bit bittersweet, when the nights start to get longer again and the ground begins to look parched and worn.
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Red huckleberries, fuchsia berries; and a single, insanely fragrant blackberry.
Grass seed in dappled morning light. The foxglove is almost done for the year.
Where we sometimes sit for morning coffee.
Echinacea is blooming. Snapdragons too.
Arugula flowers.
Our wild jungle garden. It really is kind of wild this year!
A day’s harvest.
Home.
Rising crescent moon (with vulture circling nearby).
And a black bear. No big deal.
This was the kind of day that unfolds moment by moment. Definitely my kind of day. From coffee drinking to berry picking, weeding to watering, trellising to harvesting, food making to kitchen cleaning, mowing and picture taking – the next thing I knew the sun was setting and I realized I had spent the whole day doing what ever presented itself, moment by moment. How simple, right? But really, I felt so satisfied. I’m working on this “be here now” stuff. I know it’s so cliché, but there really is something to it.
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