Having been battered this past month by chronic cardiac conditions — resulting in deep fatigue & a fair amount of brain fog — I don’t have much to offer today. But the green and growing world outside does!

Life wants to live! The kale that was munched by the big old groundhog has, in spite of the unseasonable heat, grown again & the Hopi sunflowers, denuded and broken by some neighborhood critter, have valiantly sprouted new leaves and grown some more — a few are even trying to bloom!

The bumblebees are feasting in the salvia.

And the canna lilies in which hummingbirds delight are just beginning to offer their bounty.

MORE THAN ENOUGH  by Marge Piercy

"The first lily of June opens its red mouth.
 All over the sand road where we walk
 multiflora rose climbs trees cascading
 white or pink blossoms, simple, intense
 the scene drifting like colored mist.

 The arrowhead is spreading its creamy
 clumps of flower and the blackberries
 are blooming in the thickets. Season of
 joy for the bee. The green will never
 again be so green, so purely and lushly

 new, grass lifting its wheaty seedheads
 into the wind. Rich fresh wine
 of June, we stagger into you smeared
 with pollen, overcome as the turtle
 laying her eggs in roadside sand."