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 ducksmetal sculpture familyFunnel Garden sculpturescascading streamcastor bean plant (Ricinus communis)Wiggle WaggleEucomis sp (pinapple lily)Swalewayrare Anemonopsis macrophylla (false anemone)tree peony seedheadlabyrinthMexican sunflower and coleusmonarch on Mexican sunflowerginkgo leavesteahouseteak thrones and river lion at TermiHeptacodium miconiodes (seven sons) treeCone Town shrubsGarish Garden coloursStraight & Narrow with view to parterre garden
ODIORNE POINT STATE PARK (RYE, NH)
mockingbirdpink pea flowersbucket left behind on beachblack swallowtail on beachCakile edentula (sea rocket)laughing and herring gullseidersumacwhite rosa rugosabumblebee in pink rosa rugosagoldenrod Atlantic ocean
small bear in marsh Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry)red viburnum katydidcemeteryDryocampa rubicunda (rosy maple moath caterpillar)
Food
peach pie and peach cobbler breadbangers & Colcannonshrimp, cornbread, salsalocal restauant porchpeaches from our treeslunch @ Warrens’ (Kittery ME) deck
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.
Perseids talkAbra Lee – Planting Your Path (CMBG)Wonderwell sanghapoetry group in person on screen porchBoston.com cocktail club w/ John Rodriquez
House & Garden
CAT
hidingcatching raystrying to sleepalert!sunroom snoozewith mouse
HOUSE
Houseplants! Which I’m terrible with. And another photo of peaches, plus the garlic harvest.
romaineChelone (turtlehead)monarch on buddleiablack plum tomatoeshummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) on buddleiawillow gentianwoodland sunflowersJoe Pye weedTurk’s cap lily et alnasturtiumso many peachesEchinops bannaticus (blue globe thistle)Inula helenium (elecampane)ruby-throated hummingbirdcucumbertwelve-spotted skimmer dragonflyslug on bee balmmorning glorymonarch on Joe Pye weedAmerican toadClethraalnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’ (summersweet)monarch caterpillar on milkweedfritillary butterfly on echinaceahazelnutshade garden
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