I can sort of remember August. Though with the woodstove fire crackling beside me, having walked around town today in fleece and a winter coat and bracing against the cold wind, and now digesting a dinner of roasted root & other vegetables (Brussels sprouts, fennel, carrots, potatoes, beets, shallots) with the welcome heat of the oven in the kitchen, it’s obvious August is long behind us. Still, we can relive it in memory and photos.
Walks and Sights in New Hampshire
Took about 10 woods walks, plus a day trip to Bedrock Gardens in Lee NH, and another to Odiorne Point State Park in coastal Rye NH. Also town walks, including one to the old cemetery, where some friends are buried.
BEDROCK GARDENS (LEE, NH)
guinea fowl and ducks metal sculpture family Funnel Garden sculptures cascading stream castor bean plant (Ricinus communis) Wiggle Waggle Eucomis sp (pinapple lily) Swaleway rare Anemonopsis macrophylla (false anemone) tree peony seedhead labyrinth Mexican sunflower and coleus monarch on Mexican sunflower ginkgo leaves teahouse teak thrones and river lion at Termi Heptacodium miconiodes (seven sons) tree Cone Town shrubs Garish Garden colours Straight & Narrow with view to parterre garden
ODIORNE POINT STATE PARK (RYE, NH)
OTHER NH TRAIL WALKS
maybe a wood frog bottle gentian white coral fungi jewelweed around boardwalk katydid in rose chipmunk Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed) monkshood Malva moschata (musk mallow) mallards Actaea pachypoda (white baneberry, doll’s eyes) cicada Monotropa hypopitys (pinesap) black earth tongues Dalibarda repens (false violet) ferny path Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe, ghost pipe) raging stream Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumber root) stinkhorn fungus birch leaf ruffed grouse Melampyrum lineare (narrow-leaf cow wheat) flower Clintonia borealis (blue-bead lily) Amanita mushroom bird feather sundew (Drosera) + spaghnum moss Platanthera blephariglottis (white fringed orchid) yellow coral fungi garter snake (alive)
TOWN WALKS
Food
Socialising/Zoom
I attended a couple of Zoom presentations this month, including some Boston.com cocktail-making with host Jackson Cannon, a talk on meteor showers and the Perseids in particular by Scott Negley through the Wells Reserve, and “Planting Your Path,” about being black in the horticulture field, by Abra Lee at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens; and I attended the Buddhist sangha one Sunday morning through Wonderwell.
House & Garden
CAT
HOUSE
Houseplants! Which I’m terrible with. And another photo of peaches, plus the garlic harvest.
GARDEN
romaine Chelone (turtlehead) monarch on buddleia black plum tomatoes hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) on buddleia willow gentian woodland sunflowers Joe Pye weed Turk’s cap lily et al nasturtium so many peaches Echinops bannaticus (blue globe thistle) Inula helenium (elecampane) ruby-throated hummingbird cucumber twelve-spotted skimmer dragonfly slug on bee balm morning glory monarch on Joe Pye weed American toad Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’ (summersweet) monarch caterpillar on milkweed fritillary butterfly on echinacea hazelnut shade garden