It is the season of the oak gall wasp, bungeeing caterpillars, and relentless paper wasps. At night its June bugs bouncing off screens and, tonight, the first lightning bugs. We have been miraculously without mosquitoes -no one's complaining.
In the woods Red Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis, bloom.
It's a bit regal
In its dusty crown.
The first sight of the Woods Geranium, Geranium maculatum, is always a surprise in the shadowy under-canopy.
Geranium grows throughout the woods, but only one here, two there. In the area I call the council circle (laughably and yet to be introduced here) the geranium grow profusely.
Virginia Wetleaf, Hydrophyllum virginianum, has been in flower for over two weeks now.
It's pale purple mass of flowers create glowing, floating dollops wherever it grows (and that is nearly everywhere).
