2010-Suddenly the chicories along the roadsides have come into a second, fuller flush of bloom, accompanied now by the delicate Queen Anne’s Lace. Great clouds of deep lilac blue that always suggests something Virgin Maryish to me. At the same time, the blueberries are in full fruit and, having with constant vigilance and frequent repair managed to keep the bird netting functional, I am picking almost a quart a day. The two blues together fill my eyes and I feel, in that color, I am touching the true heart of summer.
2012-Getting ready to go to the beach for a week just as the garden has come into full-tilt production. We’ll be leaving many blueberries behind as well. The rains have brought everything out of a kind of heat stressed hibernation and everything-the corn!- just shot up a foot and has become thick and lush. The hummingbirds are going wild and I can barely keep the feeder full. My experiment in summer bird feeding ended when a bear came and crunched my feeder into little pieces.
2013-The blueberries, apples and wild plums are plentiful this year. This fall L and I will get a chance to try out our new cider press and I’m hoping to make plum wine.
After recently being assured that science was just a step away from completing our understanding of the universe, I read that a modified gravity theory threatens to force us to rewrite our understanding of cosmic structure from scratch. So it seems this world invites us to discover endlessly, but never, or only foolishly, to know. Can it be that falling in love with not knowing is the key to happiness here?
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