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  Life in the country has its rewards and its challenges. Since we use "have a heart" relocation techniques, why not snap a picture while saying goodbye?
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| Summer in the Litchfield Hills |
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July 21, 2008 A wildflower bloom that hints of party favors. 
July 18, 2008 A 20 second-long visit from a dragonfly. The wing structure always makes me think of the lead cames of stained glass. Gone. 
July 16, 2008 A Great Spangled Fritillary visits a colorful bee balm bloom. 
July 14, 2008 So much apetizing greenery. 
July 11, 2008 Coming in for a landing... 
...and then immediately to work. 
July 10, 2008 White, the color for early July. 
July 7, 2008 Common yarrow is just now coming into bloom. 
July 3, 2008 The sway from a gentle breeze doesn't deter visitors to this roadside wildflower. 
July 2, 2008 A favorite, although non-native, flower of early summer is Deutzia scabra 'Candidissima' here looking dramatic as petals fall...
June 30, 2008 Returning from a week of travels I found the first of the knapweed coming into bloom — a sure sign of summer. Tyrol knapweed (Centaurea nigrescens) is an invasive, but attractive, species. 
June 22, 2008 The short-lived but complex world inside of a poppy. 
June 20, 2008 This poppy was accented by the last of the spring sun. And then, with a thunderstorm, summer arrived at 7:59 PM. 
June 16, 2008 The non-native, but naturalized, Ragged Robin is just beginning its long season. 
June 13, 2008 The flower for these sunny days. 
June 10, 2008 Aesculus hippocastanum, or "horse chestnut," flowers and spring showers. 
June 6, 2008 A tulip tree reaches bloom. 
June 4, 2008 As drizzle falls, raindrops cover this small wildflower.
June 1, 2008 Weekend storms ended with a rainbow.
Continue reading from the Late Spring archive >
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The Litchfield Road Race was on a sunny and hot June 8, 2008. To see if you ran as slowly as we did, check the results on the LHRR site > Yale's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival runs from June 14th to August 16th. New music shows are June 21, 26, and 27. The 100th birthday of the great composer, organist & teacher, Olivier Messiaen is celebrated in a concert on July 12th. Go to the Yale at Norfolk site > The Litchfield Jazz Festival runs August 1-3, 2008 and brings, among others, Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Brubeck, and Kenny Werner to the Northwest Hills. Go to the Litchfield Jazz Fest site > Litchfield.com is your link to life in the country. And if travel, vacation, or just a weekend drive brings you to Litchfield County Connecticut, we hope that the blogs, photo essays, and stories on litchfield.com will help you find more of the beauty that those of us who live here in the northwest hills enjoy every day. |
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