Abundance

The time of seeding has come. Joe Pie Weed is blooming, the Bone Set is flourishing and the blackberries are ripening. Soon the elderberries will be ready for picking. The rain has put a damper on holiday plans, but the wetlands are flourishing…thicker and bushier than even last year.

To Eat or to be Eaten

The wet summer continues. Flash flooding in some areas of the state this week, though our little town was spared the heaviest part of the rain. Today thunder is rumbling around and a spots of rain pass through every so often.

Everything and everyone is feeding on the forest’s abundance. This afternoon Lindley saw a weasel stalking two ducklings in the pond. This morning I spotted a Kestrel roaming the skies and calling out: Eeee, Eeee.

Yesterday I found two brilliantly red toad stools, on half eaten. When I knelt down on the mulch of the forest floor, I saw two slugs eating their way through the cap of the mushroom.