Peaceful pockets of beauty and light are what I seek out when the heat of summer approaches. This sort of green freshness is prevalent right now, making the days a joy to experience as they unfurl. Dappled sunlight on the four-pointed stars of the Chinese dogwood merge celestial bodies as light and structure shifts. As shadows play before and behind green leaves, this is a peek into peace, into tranquility. It demands a stillness – a pause in the fast pace of a late-spring day. It’s all moving so quickly now – seedlings emerging in the span of a few hours of heat and sunshine, and other plants wilting before the sun moves completely across the sky – I do what I can to inhabit the moment.
