Great blue heron, turkey vultures, great-crested flycatcher, and get this: bobolink male in the neighbors hay field. Been some years since they've been here, used to be regulars, hoorah!
Speaking of the new Oxford American, you can read "Strange Beads," the great essay by my colleague, Wendy Brenner, right here.
Poppies and alliums,
or whatever those things are,
swim hole, garden, bliss.
(You have to pronounce it allyums for it to work. Come on, play along here!)
That is fine, girl! Those alliums are last year’s scallions. Scallyons.