summertime

Today I didn't have to go to work, so I picked red currants. My bushes are full, bowed down.

branch bowed down


underneath


And the berries glow.


There was life everywhere all around while I was picking--tiny life, little spiders, a daddy longlegs, tiny caterpillars, mother mosquitoes hoping I had a meal for them, and also bigger life, orioles singing up high in trees, invisible, and robins and bluejays, and next door, the neighbors' grandkids, splashing in a pool, and under my feet and knees as I...