Foss Farm and Beyond

Foss Farm, Great Meadows et al., Carlisle, Massachusetts   

Foss Farm is flowering.
 Hereabouts, the parcels of land give those who tend to plants a chance to meet nature.
   With the human touch.
  Built into the colors and sounds, and the spirit of the place.

 Just steps away, a path to the woods.  
  Along the Concord,
    the river that brings persona to this exuberant theater of light and shade.

 Over the meadow, colorfully buzzing.
   The hawk is making rounds, higher and higher, into the clouds;

  and
   the Turtles Crossing warning makes me smile... 

Sunflowers

Foss Farm, Carlisle, Massachusetts   

 Oozing warmth from shiny yellows.
   From flower to flower.
 
 Goldfinch zigzags, picking seeds, with a brief stop in a leafy hideout.
   The bees are all dusty but carry on, resolutely.
  
 These petals...

   and another Goldfinch, pulls out the seed, waits for a bit, and flies away.
 
      The flowers salute...