June 2

Walk the top of Davis Hill Road, on the knoll where the farm sits adjacent to the cresting field of sweet grass that is now waist high. In the morning sun, the gentle breeze causes waves in the grass just like the ocean, and you can see the undulations and shifts of the wind across the field.

Summer flowers are arriving in earnest now. The heat of the past few days has hastened their coming I suspect. Just here, tucked at the roadside between thinning tufts of sweet grass are bladder campion in bloom. There is also cow vetch and even red clover, both healthy looking, and I am surprised to see it this far along so early in June. A little further on, where the road descends sharply toward Route 122, daisies are out, white splashes bunched together with vibrant centers.

Notes:

Sweet William Catchfly blooming.