Green 緑

 

Looking back through some of my posts, I am recognizing that I disproportionately concern myself with plants in Japan. Clearly I am more nature lover than night life. Since it is still summer here  I surprise myself with how much I do outdoors. Heat reaches a point that no amount of ice-packs or scenery can compensate for.... But the sweltering temperatures are showing signs of reprieve, at last, so I can finally enjoy walking again.

So in a salutation to summer, I want to write a ode to its beautiful green. The scenes below are from the beginning of the season in the same gardens that the plum blossom post featured.

http://linguadiscipuli.blogspot.jp/2016/03/plum-blossoms.html

The hesitant and testing tendril of spring

is gone,

replaced by the lush and verdant 

hollow logs which wade through living rivers of grass,

cascading down a hill.

Now that summer's almost done, I yearn for its demise,

but I forget the shock of green, the flourish and delight.