mid june reporting

 there are two doors now

 and this is the mudroom/entryway

 a large garden shed

built with trusses salvaged

from the house re-build

and roofing from his old milk house

 we've found turtle alley

a place where the road

skirts a large marsh

and turtles use this spot

 to lay eggs

all patterning thanks to turtles 

 some of these turtles are quite large

and there is some record of agitation

 and annihilation

i saw one huge raccoon

happily feeding at the end of the strip.

not too bothered by me, but it did

eventually

slip off. 

 the juneberry is shedding 

a few leaves

and is producing the first bird food 

at the new place;

also strawberries, 

the amish have them coming on.

out the window by the beaver dam

a whitetail nibbles

new water plants

 a fertile crescent

 these drifts of pale yellow

 are pollen

so many trees are flowering

and the northern forest

is rich. 

this was my desk thursday

royalty visited,

or was it lori

the best teacher assistant in the world

who brought me a little bit of spring

for joy and then for printing.

monday after school

i leave for a workshop 

with dorothy caldwell.

i am so happy!