Some might call it laziness, but I like to think of it as wild appreciation. The yard is a lot to maintain and this year we took a slightly different approach…
In early June all the wildflowers were just starting to bloom so we decided to stop cutting the lawn for a month. The grass was long and tickled your ankles but the brilliant orange Hawkweed and flying saucer daisies got a chance to shine. Each square foot of the wild lawn holds almost 20 different species, including wild strawberry, yellow wood-sorrel, self- heal, white and red clover, creeping cinquefoil, speedwell, azure bluet, partridgeberry and marshpennywort.
The wildness doesn’t end with the lawn. So far this year we have been visited by a black bear, Reinhold the racoon and her kits, Jill the deer and her faun, and others not pictured including bald eagles, blue herons, snapping turtles and Jim the porcupine. But wildest of them all are Socket and Brandon of course.
