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)
ruffled fungus 
sandy walkway along Merrimack River 
coral fungi 
Actaea rubra (red baneberry) 
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) along stream 
Lysimachia ciliata (fringed yellow loosetrife) 
shagbark hickory nut 
high water 
Merimack River overrunning pathway
WALKS IN TOWN, and exploring surroundings of friends’ new house
asters already in bloom, 23 July 
bumblebee on thistle 
St. John’s wort (Hypericum spp.) 
Amanita jacksonii (Jackson’s slender Caesar) mushroom eggs 
Amanita jacksonii (Jackson’s slender Caesar) mushroom, with veil 
statue 
cicada 
male yellow-bellied sapsucker 
marsh 
great blue heron and pickerel plants
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.
party at lake cabin (screened porch) 
Longwood Garden’s edible perennials webinar 
visiting-from-west coast friend 
garden tour 
friend’s birthday at Salon
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
