I won't ad photos to this one as Wallace Stegner writes so clearly in
Crossing To Safety I am certain you WILL see the pictures in your head!
Okay, one or two for those not familiar with the exact plants...
At the four corners we turn up a dusty secondary road. Dust
has whitened the ferns along the roadside, gypsy moths have built their tents
in the chokecherry bushes, the meadow on the left is yellow with goldenrod,
ice-blue with asters, stalky with mullein, rough with young spruce. Everything
taller than the grass is snagged with the white fluff of milkweed. On the other side is a level hayfield, green
from a second cutting. The woods at the far edge rise in a solid wall. In the
yard of an empty farmhouse we sample apples off a gnarled tree. Worms in every
one. But Wizard {the horse} finds them
refreshing, and blubbers cider as he walks.
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| Goldenrod | | |
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| Asters | |
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| Mullein |
delightful image...
ReplyDeleteMy mid-West background - I knew them all.
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