Overcast and cool. When I tire of feeding myself to the mosquitoes, I don a bug hat and go into the yard with my phone to identify whatever has been skeletonizing trees and shrubs: angle-lined prominent moth caterpillars on the bigtooth aspen, pinstriped in green but too hairy to be extra twigs, and dogwood sawfly larvae on the silky dogwoods, curled into fat white moons.
Related book
What I do after I sit on the porch. One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.
Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)
Copyleft

All works on this site by Dave Bonta are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
