While you were away

While you were away

August came and went. Like a gentle breeze you might have barely noticed.

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Photograph by John Buckley
Photograph by John Buckley
You might have smiled and weren’t sure why. Maybe you took a vacation. A trip to the beach. Or the mountains. Some kind of respite before the autumn makes its way up the road and settles in outside your door.

It was a good month. You might take a break in August, but the native plants and wildflowers don’t. Many are just hitting their stride. Reaching and stretching and opening up, reassuring and beckoning. The birds and butterflies and bugs delight. You feel their song.

The Brandywine Wildflower Journal was taking it all in. And trying to figure out what to do with it all, this abundance of natural beauty. Then, when all was still and quiet, the idea came in on that breeze, a soft whisper in the ear: “Just post a bunch of pictures and go eat lunch.”

And we smiled. Now we present to you a fun little feature we like to call The Month in Five Photos or Less.

And there you have it. All while you were away.


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Eastern Tiger Swallowtails on a Lobelia.Photograph by John Buckley
Eastern Tiger Swallowtails on a Lobelia.Photograph by John Buckley
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Cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis). Photograph by John Buckley
Cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis). Photograph by John Buckley
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Photograph by John Buckley
Photograph by John Buckley