Mid-summer madness (a la Auntie Mame)!
Only two more months and I’ll be caught up on these retrospective looks at the year that has been.
Walks & Sights in New Hampshire
An odd month in that, partly due to constant rain, I did only two “trail” walks — Kezar Lake (Sutton) and the Society for the Preservation of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) in Concord. The rest of the days I walked in town.
KEZAR LAKE (SUTTON)
Chamaepericlymenum canadense (bunchberry) Amanita mushroom goldenrod and marsh pond goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace Epipactis helleborine (helleborine) flower trillium bead Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush) flowers with silver-spotted skipper butterfly Clintonia borealis (blue-bead lily) Amanita jacksonii mushroom pair mallards
SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS (CONCORD)
WALKS IN TOWN, and exploring surroundings of friends’ new house
Food
Corpse Reviver #2 on porch of local restaurant corn on cob with Old Bay potluck at garden tour homemade pumpernickel bread hors d’oeuvres for friends over outside #1 more hors d’oeuvres for friends over outside #2 carmelised onion, brie, gorgonzola tart – hors d’oeuvres for friends over outside #3 crabcakes with slaw and watercress, plus spanikopita, on porch of local restaurant
Socialising
A couple of small, mostly outdoors in-person permaculture parties (and garden tour), one couple over for tapas outside, and outside restaurant lunch with friend visiting from the western U.S., plus continuing Zoom meetings and events.
House & Garden
CAT
GARDEN
A curated palette of 31 photos.
goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace slug sex mint moth on yarrow monarch caterpillar and red milkweed beetle on milkweed borage gold-marked thread-waisted wasp on veronicastrum female ruby-throated hummingbird great golden digger wasp on veronicastrum female ruby-throated hummingbird masterwort monarch on milkweed pink phlox shade garden black bear admiral butterfly on veronicastrum swallowtail on echinacea crosocmia ‘Lucifer’ fritillary on veronicastrum Intensia Neon Pink phlox feverfew double daylily clouded sulphur on echinacea echinacea bumblebees on echinacea filipendula (meadowseet) ‘Golden Leopard’ tricyrtis (toadlily) bumblebee on bee balm zinnia house wren black cherry tomatoes front yard