July 11, 2025
Tonight I took an evening ride with Patrick and got to digest just how beautiful a spot we live in.


We started at the rookery tonight.  The shock of the drainage is beginning to wear off and the birds are beginning to come back.  Not the water birds, although the goose family seems to have friends living with them.  The wildflowers are doing well and there's enough water to keep the side grasses alive, but all of the lilies and other aquatic plants are dried up.  There are no frogs, no turtles and no dragonflies.  The new ecosystem begins. 



We drove down into farms and followed dirt roads through acres and acres of plants: squash, corn, tomatoes, cukes, some tobacco and a few I could not identify.  But we drove along the Deerfield River in Deerfield for quite a while.


A few farms had one or two cows and twice we saw something in the distance, thinking they were bulls or a large pig, and they turned out to be pieces of farm equipment.  This is with my glasses on.   We made up stories about stuff too.


I started this day off depressed and I worked through it, kind of, but getting a good ride in and a very pleasant dinner with a close friend brought me out of it.   

I am sorry my camera isn't working at its best. But it did ok.  Too much light getting in for the setting it is on?  I don't know.  


Tomorrow I will go to LAVA before it opens and help Ash hang the new work that was created in response to last Saturday, so looking forward to it.  I'll gets some photos to share. 




 

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