The Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood National Park, California. Photo: Daniel Mount
A few Junes ago my friend Theo came out to our farm in the Snoqualmie Valley for a visit. As we walked around the perimeter of our property, where our efforts at control crumble into the gorgeous chaos of Carnation Marsh, she had only one simple comment.
“It’s so green.”
It was so green; where we hadn’t mowed the reed canary grass was waist high. Every leaf on every willow was climaxing in photosynthesis. Moss pelts on the trunks and boughs of the alders were spongy with the recent rain.
Chinese mayapple (Podophyllum pleianthum) growing in the woodland garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden. Photo: Daniel Mount
June is the greenest month, at least here in the Evergreen State. So when Theo repeated herself, “It’s so green,” pitching her voice higher and raising the volume, singing actually, it was hard not to agree.
Theo taught me to write, or at least gave me the kick in the butt— albeit a tender kick—I needed to get rolling over the page with...
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