July Afternoon

What would you do on a Saturday afternoon in July if the sun was warm and the sky blue? If you were a medium sized grey bird, you might sit at the very top of a tree and make a skreek sound, then wait for a bird much like you to skreek in reply, so that you could repeat your own skreek sound again. You might sing this duet over and over again for a long while, and be quite entertaining for people walking on the path beneath your tree.

We listened to such a bird exchange while walking today, accompanied by the percussion provided by the popping of the black pods of the Scotch Broom bushes, broadcasting their seeds under the heat of the sun.

We also snacked on wild huckleberries in the shady woods; the first I've had in years. Refreshing.