Gold, Green, and Gray at Devil’s Hopyard State Park in Connecticut

 Covered Bridge at Devil’s Hopyard 6-29-13

I grew up visiting this park so it is always fun to go back to visit it. Of course, I have to count birds while I am there, but on this gray and wet day in June there were more mosquitoes than birds. Still, I soaked in the tranquility and the lush green of New England. I knew it would be a long time before I would be seeing this again.

Gold water…

Green picnic area…

Gray titmouse in a green forest…

Gray Eastern Phoebe…

Gold, Green, and Gray.

Gold, green and gray,

These are the days

of early summer in New England

when the sun has yet to dominate

and the mosquitoes rise in clouds

from wet forests and flooded fields,

where humidity turns into rain and back again

in an ageless alchemy of water

and life,

and emerald.

It is the time before the blazing days of summer

when everything starts to wither and wilt

and turn brown.

These are the gold, green, and gray days

the pensive days, the dreaming days,

the remembering.

~Kathie Adams Brown (July 23, 2013)