1756. question mark

 

on the police car

standing at full attention 

a butterfly?

We were standing in the middle of a crowded parking lot, filled with families during last night’s special neighborhood event at the township headquarters. Her eye 👁️ was fixed on a butterfly 🦋 stationed on top of the outside mirror of a police patrol car. She kept looking and finally said, “It’s not moving. It isn’t real. It’s not real.” “It is real,” he insisted, “or possibly a drone.” He took a step closer and waved his arm—it flew off! 

By the way, I looked it up and that sure looks like a Question Mark Butterfly. Another first for me.😉

1755. summer’s treasure

free and fancy

worth a king’s ransom

queen anne’s lace

If I could choose one flower to be the queen of summer, it would be Queen Anne’s Lace. Like dandelions, it grows wild in fields. It’s nothing fancy and not pricey at all. All it demands is sunshine and rain, a bit of grass and good earth under its feet and it keeps blooming and blooming all summer long. I think it’s the prettiest flower around.

 

1754. intriguing

under the sun

on a bright summery day,

thinking of Christmas

 

The tree was small, no more than six or seven feet tall, sparsely covered with softly curving branches of long, hairy needles and just one nut or fruit hanging from it like a Christmas ball about an inch and a half in diameter, the size of a rather large walnut. It was green. I zoomed in close at the texture to see tiny fan shapes clearly embedded all around its surface. It was so pretty. I think it may have been a very young Pond Cypress tree. Finding something for the first time was intriguing, I must go back again to see how it grows.