The Summer in Photos: June 9, 2021
A muggy day. Some thunder. In our garden, foxgloves, peonies, and roses.
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts…
There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end,— [Sings.]
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.” (Shakespeare, Hamlet)
Camille Saint-Saëns, “Carnival of Animals, Aquarium”