"It's Summer", sing the flora of our yard! The Tiger Lilies greet us with their newly opened buds, the Daisies sway on long stems in the rare relief that comes in the form of a sigh from the sky above us. The season has now officially arrived and brought with it insects, flowers, and eatables!
Although we love the fleeting aesthetic pleasures of the blossoms, the raspberries, glorious raspberries, are those who have stolen our hearts! Ripe and plump, they sit quietly on their vines awaiting human discovery and consumption.
Four years ago, I acquired 4 raspberry shoots from my mother's own glorious patch. My, how they have multiplied, sending their root systems into the soil to areas of the underground that are nourished by a population of creatures who squirm and wriggle their way through the earth below our feet. The Dreamer and the Caveman have hopes of stumbling upon their elusive bodies in an overturned clod of dirt from shovels, spades, and hoes as we prod from above searching for earthworms...
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