24 degrees and sun/cloud mix at the start
Indigo Bunting (male)
Botany Highlight: May Apple
May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Trout Lily remains (Erythronium americanum)
Morrow Honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)
Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii)
Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
Wild Columbine ( Aquilegia canadensis)
American Toad
Celandine (Styloforum diphyllum)
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Starry False Solomom-seal (Maianthemum stellata)
Cursed Crowfoot (Ranunculus sceleratus)
Small-flowered Buttercup (Ranunculus abortiva)
Dryad’s Saddle
Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum)
Spindle Tree (Euonymus europaea)
Forget-me-not (Myosotis)
Chipmunk
Rattlesnake-root ( Prenathes alba)
Rattlesnake-weed (Hieracium venosum)
Tickle Grass (Agrostis hyemalis)
White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
JULY IN SCARBOROUGH
White bird flies against black cloud
Black bird flies against white cloud
Cameos.
Leggy orange day lilies
Languish against a blue shed
They flirt.
In a gritty Scarborough lane.
A work friend eases
Three tiny yellow plums
Into my palm
Plums succumb to my hearty chomp
At TTC bus stop.
I coax a tiny fuchsia bloom
Between index and thumb
Home base it in blue eggcup
Add one teaspoon of water
I am content with the wee view.
Adele Koehnke