JUNE - "The sun is rich and gladly pays..."
Spanish Ladies The sun is rich And gladly pays In golden hours, Silver days, And long green weeks That never end. School’s out. The time Is ours to spend. There’s Little League, Hopscotch, the creek, And, after supper, Hide-and-seek. The live-long light Is like a dream, and freckles come Like flies to cream. John Updike Elder flowers Yesterday our seven year old granddaughter caught her first fish - a rainbow trout no less - in the first of a series of Junior Angling Events this summer. Here she is with her daddy and the rainbow trout. Her dad is the one with the beard! Junior Angler I wonder - for how long have human beings been fishing? In our fortunate society we no longer rely on catching fish to sustain us. In other places, some people do, of course. That reminds me of the massive gap between societies - and yet, could it be that those who still need to catch a fish for dinner are happier than those in the "west" who abandon the wilderness for man-made acquisitions and ...
