the grass is always browner

how many march posts have i spent sheepishly half-apologizing for yet another composition steeped in grays and browns, and promising that april showers would soon bring life and color back to still blog’s seasonal palette? and yet here i am in late july as gorged with midsummer color  as i am starved of it in late winter, and what i felt today was a craving for just a little taste of neutral earth-toned late-winter stems on the spectrum running from straw colored to walnut colored. the grass on the other side of the fence today was brown.

various over-wintered stems