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)
mockingbird 
pink pea flowers 
bucket left behind on beach 
black swallowtail on beach 
Cakile edentula (sea rocket) 
laughing and herring gulls 
eider 
sumac 
white rosa rugosa 
bumblebee in pink rosa rugosa 
goldenrod 
Atlantic ocean
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
small bear in marsh 
Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry) 
red viburnum 
katydid 
cemetery 
Dryocampa rubicunda (rosy maple moath caterpillar)
Food
peach pie and peach cobbler bread 
bangers & Colcannon 
shrimp, cornbread, salsa 
local restauant porch 
peaches from our trees 
lunch @ 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.
friends zoom 
Perseids talk 
Abra Lee – Planting Your Path (CMBG) 
permaculture group 
Wonderwell sangha 
poetry group in person on screen porch 
Boston.com cocktail club w/ John Rodriquez
House & Garden
CAT
hiding 
catching rays 
trying to sleep 
alert! 
sunroom snooze 
with mouse
HOUSE
Houseplants! Which I’m terrible with. And another photo of peaches, plus the garlic harvest.
harvested garlic 
aloe flowers 
our peaches 
cacti, aloe, geraniums, jade
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
