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| A VERY PLEASANT DAY |
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| JUNEBERRIES WILL SOON BE RIPENING |
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| HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY BUSH IN BLOOM... |
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| ...UNUSUAL FLOWER |
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| LILAC 'MISS KIM' |
Saturday, 8:00 AM. 54 degrees F, wind W, light. The sky is clear except for a band of gray clouds on the eastern horizon. The humidity is 70% and the barometer is high. Things are drying out. It will be a very pleasant day.
The Juneberries are developing nicely and will soon start to ripen. The highbush cranberry bushes, Viburnum trilobum (the Latin species name referring to the three-lobed leaves) are just beginning to bloom. The old-fashioned Lilacs and their French hybrids are almost done blooming, and the later species and varieties, such as the Miss Kim are blooming.
I have never seen so many hummingbirds and butterflies, as well as young birds of all kinds, the latter which sit on branches, looking rather dazed. Cindy’s fragrant Wiegela hedge attracts dozens of hummingbirds and who knows how many butterflies, all at once. As we were eating lunch on the porch yesterday at noon a small hawk, I believe it was a female pigeon hawk, swooped by, almost within reach. The land is lush with life.
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