Purple Knapweed, Yellow wagtails

Puffs of Meadowsweet & Pokers of Rosebay Willowherb

& the smell of cool woodlands

5th New moon in Cancer

7th July Islamic New year

& Chinese season of Xiǎo shǔ – Slight heat

15th St. Swithin’s Day – On St Swithin’s day if it doesn’t rain, for 40 days it will remain. St Swithin’s day if thou be fair, for 40 days will rain na mair.

19th End of school year

20th The night returns – One month from Solstice and the turning of the year starts to be felt with nights beginning to close in

21st Full moon 2nd in Capricorn

& Sun enters Leo – The Dog days of summer – the Time of searing heat

23rd Chinese season of Dà shǔ – Great heat

One day in summer
when everything
has already been more than enough
the wild beds start
exploding open along the berm
of the sea; day after day
you sit near them; day after day
the honey keeps on coming
in the red cups and the bees
like amber drops roll
in the petals: there is no end,
believe me! to the inventions of summer,
to the happiness your body
is willing to bear.

Mary Oliver, American Primitive 

Back Bay Books, 1983