July is weighted gold.
purple
amber
blue twilight
gold
copper
indigo
dragonfly blue
cream
rose
deep green
1st
Evening mist. Blue woods.
Purple firs — lit amber clouds.
Warm summer scent of grass and hedgerow flowers.
2nd
A still, weighted day.
Bronze fields and golden grasses.
First pink stars of rosebay willowherb
along the lanes.
3rd
Barley lit and golden,
flowing with the wind and evening light.
White flame sky.
4th
The earth and trees are one with the wind.
5th
The fields fold in stillness.
New berries are green-gold in the hawthorn,
where white speckled flowers blossomed.
6th
A swathe of starry, sky pink rosebay at the edge of the lane.
Gold cut field dipping into layers of burnt umber and bronze.
Dark hedges.
Blue mist distance.
7th
The sky — bold — blue.
Clouds white sculptures.
Strong beauty.
8th
Delicate, creamy clematis
twines with blackberry flowers in the hedge.
Seedheads of red campions and cow parsley
thread the grass beneath.
The wheat is tall and thickly grown.
9th
Dry, ochre fields of cut grass
fall away from hedgerows,
tangled with grasses and flowers,
towards a blue drift of sky.
10th
High summer.
Hot. Still.
Sunlight a bronze brightness.
Fields copper,
edged with bleached gold and indigo shadowed grasses.
11th
Dragonfly blue sky.
Rush and fall of warm wind.
12th
Flame fields.
Grey blue trees.
Rosebay willowherb full in the hedges.
13th
A field of ochre grasses,
lilac scabious and dark seedheads.
Rain blue woods.
Pale grey sky.
14th
Grass scented air.
Deepening sky is heavy with rain.
Leaves blow before a storm that doesn’t come.
Bright clouds over gold fields.
15th
A glazed windblown evening.
Each stem of grass, a lit curve of flame
beneath an amber sky.
16th
Clouds bright edged and ink shadowed
rising in July blue.
On the crest of the hill,
a field of shaken and whispering gold —
delicate, pale oats under the bold sky.
Poppies, thistles and bronze sorrels weave together
at the field’s edge.
17th
Swallows curve low over the evening fields.
Shadows are green and deep.
18th
Barley and wheat are glossy in the glow of summer.
Burnt orange and yellow gold.
19th
The air is sweet and lemon sharp.
Rich scent of barley, honeysuckle and sun drenched grass.
20th
Rosebay willowherb bright and blowing along the lanes.
Etched blue skies blown with clouds.
21st
A fine drifting rain.
Misted trees.
22nd
I walked over the cut grass on the hillside
under a summer blue sky.
The oat field shimmered a river of light.
23rd
Rain
pooling and flowing into streams along the lane.
Leaves weighted with wet,
fields ripe with gold
under slate grey clouds.
24th
Barley glows with the rose of sunset in the evening light.
Swallows skim in deft curves.
25th
In the blue twilight, the fields of cut grass are silver.
A young owl calls — squeaky and unpractised from the dark trees.
26th
A mist cloaked day.
Blue-grey clouds low over the land.
27th
Strong summer light.
Fields ochre, edged by black hedges —
disappear into deep blue distance.
28th
Trees and hedges
sculpted
by clear cut light and deep shadow.
29th
Long blue shadows.
Stillness.
Deep gold light.
30th
The wind blows a song through dark leaves.
A quiet, gathering murmur.
31st
Fields molten under ink skies.
The air is alive — stirring the branches.