A month into summer and the flower gardens are in full glorious bloom, vegetable gardens are producing a bounty of produce, herb gardens are flourishing, the flowering hydrangea trees are bursting with white pompom flowers and a busy spot for bees, and leaves are changing color? Already?
After a little research, this is not a harbinger of fall. This is a Bradford Pear leaf and due to the dry summer the leaves can turn color and drop. It could also be fire blight, a bacteria which causes discoloration and early defoliation of leaves.
Whew. The summer is going by quickly and as much as I enjoy fall, I want summer to have its time to shine.
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A Bird Song
It’s a year almost that I have not seen her:
Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
It’s surely summer, for there’s a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow
O’er height, o’er hollow! I’d be a swallow,
To build this weather one nest together.
~ Christina Rossetti 1830 – 1894
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