Our cup plants are in full bloom and buzzing with activity. A steady stream of bees has been floating around the cheerful flowers, and the yellow finches have already returned to start early snacking on the spent flower-heads. These are well on their way to producing seeds, but the finches can’t wait. I find amusement in their eagerness, and a tinge of sadness in thinking of how far along summer already is.
We rush so quickly toward it that when it arrives it’s difficult to slow the momentum – the twins lamented that we are already halfway through it (they don’t consider the bulk of September as part of it because they’re back in school by then). I’ve promised them a Boston trip to close out their summer like we did a couple of years ago, so there are still things far off in the future to happily anticipate before school is back in session.
