Dispatch from the Meadow

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Early yesterday morning the ripening grasses held their seeds aloft in the meadow experiment at Halibut Point.

Black-eyed Susan

Wildflowers bloomed where tractors had formerly maintained a tabletop lawn.

White-tailed Deer

All parties stayed alert as the boundaries of wilderness and civilization loosened.

Calico Pennant

Dragonflies chose promontories for resting between sorties over the fertile landscape.

House Wren

Nesting birds put song in the air.

A new, to me, flower

I went home to look up the identity of a novelty, and recorded this label. [Chamaecrista fasciculata - Partridge Pea, Caesalpinioideae - Peacock Flower Subfamily, Family Fabaceae - Legumes.] Thoughts of peas, partridges, and peacocks at Halibut Point danced in my head.

Evidently I just missed the giant self-mulching mower that leveled the playing field later that morning. A new order, a new idea holds the ground. I'm left with the hope that those waving grains take hold in a new season, some of them nourishing a sparrow or two.