20 degrees and sunny at the start
Bay-breasted Warbler (female)
Botany Highlight: Yellow Lady-slipper
Yellow Lady-slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum)
Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
American Kestrel
Toothwort (Bitter Cress) Cardamine maxima
Tent Caterpillar
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Tree Swallow
Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens)
Wayfaring Tree (Viburnum lantana)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Wild Geranium (Geranium maculata)
Bulblet Fern
Wild-ginger (Asarum canadense)
Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)
Dryad’s Saddle
Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
Christmas Fern
Naked Miterwort (Mitella nuda)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Waiting for Eatonville Library to Open on a Summer Morning
t is ten to ten on a summer morning.
The library opens at ten.
I sit alone on a concrete bench.
I rest and I gaze.
The library garden is at high tide.
Monet smiles from somewhere.
Golden and purple flowers spread, spiral, cascade, fan and spray.
At ten o’clock the librarian opens the door
I go in.
The garden remains outside.
Gardens do not read.
- Adele Koehnke