Mid-July.

7-17-18 VERMONT: We finally have a rainy day. The trip back from Québec was uneventful. The dogs all survived their vacation at the kennel in Orford. The public works crew has been here clearing the culvert and making a deep ditch on our side of the road. The pasture was mowed. I love how it looks when mowed, but I also, ambivalently, love how it looks with the wild flowers in bloom. Fortunately it all grows back.

The corn is forming tassels and silk. We are picking Sun Sugar Tomatoes, a cherry tomato, the full size tomatoes are just starting to ripen. A few blueberries are blue.

New blooms: first phlox, tiger lily, summer azalea, pickerel-weed, another meadow rue, another asclepias, evening primrose.


Another Hybrid Daylily.

Bushnell Game Cam caught this young buck before the pasture was mowed.

Sitting for a portrait, for a brief moment.

Monarch, female, I think.

Freshly mowed pasture. I love how the pasture looks mowed, but I also miss the wild flowers and the unmowed look, a quandry.

Sulfur Butterfly.