doing STILL blog has opened my eyes in many ways. not the least of which is that i no longer see summer as a monochromatic carpet of green. our home sits on a heavily wooded lot, with a long sloping yard down to a large cattail bed that eventually opens up onto a kidney shaped lake called turtle lake. in high summer, that long sloping yard turns into a dense tunnel of greenery. and the lake seems to disappear as if looking down the wrong end of a telescope. i used to curse all that greenery crowding out my lake view. but no longer.  now i see abundance, variety, texture. i see opportunity. STILL blog has helped me see differently

a spray of mid-june greens from my backyard

saint paul, minnesota