Letter: Spring’s rainy days produced summer surprises

Posted 6/28/17

To the editor:

While we waited – and waited – for a few balmy days of spring, all of a sudden there was the Summer Solstice. The glorious sun and blue skies are certainly welcome, but all …

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Letter: Spring’s rainy days produced summer surprises

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To the editor:

While we waited – and waited – for a few balmy days of spring, all of a sudden there was the Summer Solstice. The glorious sun and blue skies are certainly welcome, but all those rainy days did amount to some good.

Lupines, which had been hidden by field plants, popped up and proudly showed their purple and pink spikes. A Yellowwood tree (Cladrastis kentukea) produced such big clusters of flowers - for the first time – that you might have thought a white Wisteria had grown there instead. A Seven Brothers tree (Heptacodium) grew so much it made a green umbrella over an ancient iron chaise which I cherish as it is Italian and offered only once by the late lamented Smith & Hawken. What an enchanting place to think green thoughts.

Whether those bleak rainy days of our non-spring had anything to do with the absence of last year’s miserable plague of three different kinds of caterpillars, I haven’t read or heard, but what a relief. Of course there is always a reverse to the silver lining and anyone trying to grow tomatoes and zinnias has been cursing the cold soil. I don’t imagine there will be corn for the Fourth.

So having waited so long, we now have about 60 days to enjoys summer’s pleasures. Grasp every minute.

Sidney Tynan

Little Compton

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