This is the first year that I've actually felt that the garden has come together. The rain early in the month helped enormously. There are bees and bunnies and butterflies galore. The small apples from the old apple tree have begun dropping however, which means I'm going to be busy picking up whatever all the critters don't eat. Just one more excuse to get outside.
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July 2014
07/30/2014
07/26/2014
A Day at the Movies
Photo taken when the Oak Park Mall was under construction. I like how the blurred effect conveys a feeling of age--as if memory is a little blurred in its recollections.
07/23/2014
07/21/2014
Mid-July
The days flit by: magical, slate-blue mornings giving way to haze and heat at mid-day. Nursing a lost, abcessed tooth, waiting for the heat to abate to open my windows to encaustic.
07/15/2014
Sun-burnt
July and the days are filled with heat and rain and more rain. At the bottom of the thicket of leaves, I find sunburn.
07/04/2014
The discarded lock
No longer of use
the old lock sits
discarded
I can't bring myself
to do anything but
sit it up on the ancient sill
This is history, I think,
what was once so serviceable
and now long gone
