June blows fragrant with flowers and blue.

crimson

cornflower

green

white

parchment

barley

lilac flame

summer grey

ink shadow

dusk

1st

Blowing, sweet fragrant air.

Warm and green.

Full of the haze of flowers and song of birds.

2nd

Mist

Grey and blue shadowed.

A path cuts through clouds

of cow parsley and long meadow grasses —

elegant and bowing, starred with buttercups.

3rd

Daisies float among grasses at the field’s edge.

4th

First briar rose — delicate and pale

among a tangle of dark hawthorn.

5th

A twilight blue butterfly,

in the dusk of the hedgerow,

flutters among cow parsley stems and tall grasses.

6th

A deluge of rain sweeping over the hills

leaving golden evening glistening

in the trees.

7th

A rain full day.

Blue air.

Trees weighted.

8th

Storm air turning the trees —

sounding a river rush of leaves

in the musical rain.

Ink shadow and green.

9th

Rain and warm air.

Sunshine over hazed fields and blue trees.

Bowed, lit grasses.

10th

Sweet rain and scent of roses and elder.

The air lifts the grasses —

wet with glinting drops —

shining arcs of jewelled light.

11th

Honeysuckle air.

Indigo blue.

The sound of rain and the song of birds.

12th

June blue day,

scented with grass and roses.

Traces of clouds over the hills.

A clear light of strengthening summer.

13th

Jewelled meadow — daisied and bronze —

etched beneath a sheen of yellow light.

14th

Silver daisies in the shining morning

hover among the sun paled grasses.

Dark butterflies rise —

spiralling over the meadow.

15th

In the dappled woods,

shadowed green and deep with bracken,

clearings full of foxgloves are secret gardens

among the trees.

16th

Long violet shadows

linger over the fields

in the ember light of evening.

17th

Golden hazed air.

Wheat is green grey and blue shadowed.

18th

Trees full of brightness and shadow.

grasses in full swathes,

lit with shards of green light.

19th

Today, I found beneath the bleached grasses

and seedheads on the banks —

wild strawberries.

Smudges of fairytale red and tiny white flowers

among trailing green.

20th

The valley rests in a circle of wheat fields and woods,

green vivid grass,

blue sky

and white June clouds.

21st

Still, clouded summer day.

Beech leaves a dark shadowed green.

22nd

Fields layered in a sunlit haze.

Skylarks sing in the clouds over the hilltops.

23rd

Pale barley — finely drawn.

Bronze grasses,

drifts of poppies blow in the wind.

Cornflower sky.

24th

Evening sky a lilac flame.

Honeysuckle twines cream and rose tipped

in the shadowed hedgerow,

its perfume gathers in the still air.

A blackbird sings.

25th

The poplars at the orchard’s edge

shimmer and glint in the afternoon breeze.

A rush of silver and song in the blue bright day.

26th

Evening barley fields are a hover of sunset and blue shadows.

The sky rests its brightness

on delicately etched stems.

27th

In the quiet evening,

meadows green shadowed and silver, move in the wind.

28th

Rain scented air.

Grass and fern and earth,

in warm summer grey.

29th

Grasses cut from blowing oceans of soft green

are a pale fire of dry stems.

The colours of high summer begin.

30th

Wheat is thick and green, shadowed blue

and scattered with poppies.

Cut meadows are parchment gold.