Last Time I Saw...

The Shade We Shall Never Sit In

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Dianthus (Caryophyllaceae)

As the old darkness drained into a new dawn, the clouds, sable and full, began a gentled release of its burden.

The drops fell silently in thin lines on the earth. There was no scarcity of beauty that drizzly day in the garden. The rain drops danced through a quarrelsome sky as they passed through spears of light jabbing the earth.

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Wendy's Wish Salvia (Sage)

What follows are some of the images we captured in our summer rain-soaked garden.

Shasta Daisy Becky (Leucanthemum×superbum)

“Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves.”

― Henry David Thoreau