colors

It's been dry--usually there'd be water lurking and glinting among the skunk cabbages and the tussock grass, but all the same--behold! A northern jungle:



...Here sassafras raises elegant, cupped hands, pale translucent green



and here, in the yard of a semi-abandoned house in our neighborhood, sheep sorrel gone to sparkling seed--you can see why sorrel means a reddish color.