We walked along the woods by the stream too dense to walk into. Animal tracks run under or over obstacles of fallen trees or bramble tangles steep above the stream. Dangerous for human walkers.
The days of sun, heat and no rain have crisped the heathland brown. Orchids stand like ornate daggers plunged deep into the thin grass, gradually shrinking back into the earth.
Poppies have appeared through the wheat, springing up and opening like bright wounds in the tender green, and great swathes, where the sangliers have trampled lying like dry ponds amid the yellowing waves.
The air shrills with insect song, and the birds struggling to pretend it is still spring. Pheasants crow, enjoying the heat. Already we sense the company of hounds, padding silently, ears pricked at the strangeness of it all.
Through all this ripening
this fruitful fecundity
of blossoming and littering
we watch from the shade
exulting in the richness
of the broad green world.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Insect song is such a summer sound. And what a luscious green! (K)
It still looks very green in the evening when the light is softer, but closer inspection shows the browning grass. We need rain already!
I would send you some of ours if I could.
Merril said you had more than your fair share. It looks stormy now, but that doesn’t mean it will rain much.
It sounds so summery! But that dry heat is so different from ours.
It’s foggy here this morning. We’re going to be getting summer temperatures–in the 80s tomorrow, I think, but it’s going to be humid.
Yes, humid heat is so much harder to bear. Fog and then humid heat sounds bad. I imagine it makes the pollution worse.
It always feels dry here. We need rain though, the earth is parched.
I would give you some of ours, if I could.
Kerfe already offered. Unfortunately it didn’t make the sea trip 😦
Oh well, sorry! I guess our West needs it, too. There’s drought and wildfires that have been burning for weeks.
I really am enjoying reading your journal it is very restful and evocative.💜💜
It’s calm on the outside, getting very excited though. Husband is this minute finishing the gate. The whole house has been turned upside down and outside as well.
Not long now 💜
No, just time to get a few meals prepared and give the cats a pep talk 🙂
The cats will be furious for a while then they will ignore the newbies until they decide to accept them 💜
The little daft one always kept out of Finbar’s way so she’ll probably do the same with the new ones. I’m not sure how Trixie will react. Might be fury. Two she’ll probably think is exaggerating 🙂
Lol no doubt the cats will be the bosses 😅
It often works that way 🙂
Yes indeed 💜