Summer Solstice: Rain, Sun and Pollinators; A Poem and Photos

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title image, framed in black outside, inner frame of dull gold on top blending to medium warm green on bottom. Image shows one large dandelion-like flower (Hypochaeris) in front of many lavender coloured hardy Geranium flowers. post title, plus the words cohan magazine are superimposed on the photograph in gold and lavender.


Rain Mother bestows her gifts capriciously:
precious silver drops 
fall sparingly on dusty leaves
or fall and fall and drip and pool and flow and flood.


Drops of rain water bead on nearly velvety grey-green leaves with a small cluster of pink buds at the centre. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Symphoricarpos albus/ Snowberry with Raindrops

For Solstice she has honoured the peak of Saule's journey,
gifting the lifeblood of Great Mother
so that She in turn may honour her Sky Sister
with all the green, all the flowers
all the Small Ones that buzz and creep and fly
and sing and hum their praises,
all the creatures large and little 
who feast on Summer's bounty
from the alliance of Mara and Saule that feeds life:
from sunlight gold through chlorophyll green to fungus white 
blood red and Earth black,
Life grows, consumes, births, dies, returns to the cycle.
Life celebrates.


Blue green leaves of Rhodiola/Roseroot cup drops of water like splashes of mercury against a backdrop of warm green Rubus arcticus/Dwarf Raspberry leaves. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Rhodiola rosea/Roseroot with Raindrops and Rubus arcticus/Dwarf Raspberry

Meanwhile, today, Rain Mother continues her gifts,
wetlands hum with relieved joy as
precious water trickles down through humus and soil,
gathers on the surface to foster new lives,
plants drink happily, expanding root and stem, 
preparing more buds,
while pollinators wait for Saule to peek out once more
to dry their wings and resume their busyness.


Shady, damp forest floor with a single fern frond, airy horsetail foliage and some broader, divided leaves. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Botrypus virginiana (Ex Botrychium)/ Rattlesnake Fern with Petasites/Sweet Coltsfoot, Equisetum/Horsetail etc

The yard may remain unmowed today 
the dead tree thrown down for me by Wind Mother may remain uncut,
and I sip my brew of sun and grass, 
grateful for Rain and Sun on this Solstice Day!

A medium sized dead poplar tree has fallen, from a wild area, across a mowed strip and then a small wire fence, scattering branches all over the ground, it is wet from rain. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Wind and rain have brought down a dead Poplar tree

(Ah, wait, Rain Mother has finished her work,
Saule parts the clouds, flowers perk up, pollinators rush out,
and so will I!)
Cohan June 21-24, 2023, Condor, Alberta

Looking up with a view of the upper half of an Aspen Poplar tree, the sky partly blue with wispy clouds, and partly covered by a thick dark cloud, which the sun is just peeking out from one side of. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Salue/Sun emerges from the clouds



A gold and black bee mimic Syrphid/Flower Fly with a couple of Shield Bugs on 2 large Dandelion-like flowers. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Syrphid/Flower Fly with Shield Bugs on Hypochaeris/Cat's Ears

Black butterfly with strong white markings in mid wings and small shite, blue and orange markings around wing borders. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
White Admiral/ Limenitis arthemis on Black Raspberry flowers in the garden

Small fuzzy black and pale silvery bumblebee dug into one of a cluster of raspberry flowers. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Bumblebee on Black Raspberry

Large black and gold bumblebee flying toward a patch of lavender coloured Cranesbill flowers. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Big Momma Bumblebee with Geranium pratense Mrs Kendall Clark

Deep blue wild flax flowers in front of nearly scarlet Paintbrushes. https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/
Linum lewisii/Wild Blue Flax with Castilleja sp/Paintbrush in the garden



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