A disturbing incident occurred last Sunday. An old barn down the laneway was burned by vandals. It was in good condition and about 120 years old. Only some charred remnants of the big square timbers remain. The air is filled with drifting seed plumes and the lane is whitened with their fluffiness.
Fireflies begin to flash over the meadows as dusk deepens into night.
Yesterday we saw a family of woodcocks foraging along the lane. More and more I am impressed by the richness of the wild meadows which constitute a large portion of the habitat around our house. There is a tendency to want to reforest these areas, but that would, I believe, diminish the existing biological diversity. Heavy rain this evening. Very hot and humid weather lately.