Little Crum Creek has recently enjoyed a welcome relief from July’s heat & humidity.
Friends featured here continue to come & go.
The fruits of mulberry trees are fully gone now, and wineberries have largely departed from their brambles.
But pokeweed has been flowering & fruiting new green berries.
Easily approachable young robins still wait on lawns for feedings while mallard ducklings, nearly full-grown, paddle up and down the stream for strength & skill in a burgeoning school behind mama marm.
Bankside, a new generation of lean woodchucks dart along paths into holes, not yet waddling comically like their elders, who easily mosey into close proximity of anything still and quiet.
Cicada songs steadily increase throughout the day.
And evening’s flicker of fireflies are suddenly past peak, waning with Friday’s Full Buck Moon.
The namesake deer occasionally turn stones under hoof in the traversable stream, snapping brush & fallen branch to browse the delicate jewelweed …
which has just shown its first few ephemeral flowers…
under the full red maple …
and blue cloud sky.
some little crum creek 
March 25, 2012 at 11:14 am
So hard not to comment on all of your posts! I’m scrolling through and had to pause (again) to express a sigh of appreciation for the clouds. When we are out in nature, sometimes we forget to look up.
Know you enjoy all the aspects of the great outdoors because it’s well depicted in your photography. Thank you for sharing what was above you at that moment.
March 25, 2012 at 6:40 pm
It’s so true … we forget to look up, especially in spring and summer when so much is happening on the ground. I took out a book on clouds after this picture and decided to do some posts about the different kinds of clouds over LCC, but still haven’t gotten around to it. So much to meet out here, so much to learn! Thanks for your sensitive, insightful comments. I hope to read more!
July 26, 2011 at 9:07 am
Such a beautiful description of summer, I love all the detail!
August 28, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Would there were more days like this!
July 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm
You nicely captured a sense of place here. And the pokeweed is out here too!
August 28, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Thanks, Tracy. I always enjoy seeing what similar natural encounters we have between us in Ohio & PA.
July 21, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for bringing the cicadas and fireflies out west. Your words are full of the song and light of them.
August 28, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Those are very gratifying words Pierr! Especially since I haven’t managed to photograph the fireflies in flight these last two summers.
July 18, 2011 at 7:45 pm
A lovely and graceful written meditation. Thank you.
July 20, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Thanks, Donna. Suddenly this week things are very still, much hotter than last.