There is green
everywhere!
leaves overhead
– a green sky of foliage canopied over the road
green seeping
into the “blue” water – a child’s watercolor painting delight – turning the bay
into The Teal Sound, or the Sound of Teal
seaweeds, a wet green,
bedding along the high tide line
the dog’s
green-stained fur after rolling and romping in wet grass
our nightly
salad bowls – kale, arugula, spinach, romaine, cucumbers, scallions – all the
great, once-growing green stuff
houseplants, in
every shade of green … and some dotted
with yellow, red, orange – as if intentional accents to show off their verdance
weeds growing
out of gravel, sturdy greens
the color of new
mold growing where dank conditions persist
patches and
gardens overflowing with growing things
And there is
every color of green:
the goldened
dark green of dusk
the lime green
strip running down the center of the prayer plant leaf
the blackened
green of Douglas firs in shadow
the yellow-green
of too-dry, dying leaves and grass
the stereotypical
green of the watered, mowed, weeded, tended-“to-a-tee” golf course lawn
the sage green
of lichen
the lemongrass
green of fresh, moist moss
the eerie
ashgreen on the low horizon just before a storm over the water
the fluorescent
green of the flash at sunset
the compelling
green in the iris of a cormorant
the medium green
of the maple tree’s leaves in mid-June
the faded ink
green of a Mt. Rainier meadow in an old photo on the desk
the electric
green of the urchins spotlighted on a sunny day
the blue green
of a tiny succulent in my terrarium
the silvered
green of handpicked, now-dried sage for smudging
the brown-olive
of a clump of desiccated moss on my nature calendar
the unnamable
dozens of greens in gradations on any leaf, bough, tree, plant, stalk, stem
the translucent
lighter green of the rainbow edging the squall clouds
the seafoam
green of currents in the briny waters
the elusive
flicker of green on the hummingbird’s swift back
These are but a
small sampling of the greens of the almost-summer-solstice landscape of this
Pacific Northwest place I call home,
hearth, soul-nourishing respite.
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| Blessings for your Summer Solstice, residents of this Northern Hemisphere! |
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