Midsummer at Iroquoia Heights

Even if I'm stuck inside, I find it's good to look at photos of green and growing things. I took these on the 5th of August at my favourite hiking spot. It never ceases to amaze me how, despite the consistency of the heat and the humidity, the natural world is always pushing toward some kind of transformation. If you go out today in my neck of the woods, you'll find wild plantain going to seed, sumac fruit ready to pick and squeeze into a glass of water, feral apple trees beginning to throw off their first fruits, and a host of late summer flowers coming into their own. The skies are putting on their own constant show, with an amazing array of varied and ever-shifting clouds passing through. Have you looked at the sky lately?

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