Saturday July 2 Percy Warner Park . Nashville, Tennessee

Here is a view toward the hills of Brentwood, south of the city of Nashville. How green it is. How well watered, for our summers too often are dry and brown. Johnson grass on the road edges is taller than I am. The woods are quiet, with the birds having little to say. What a paradox, that even as the days become hotter, they relentlessly grow shorter. The solstice is behind us. Only two more months of barn swallows in the evening-