#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
Tiger Swallowtail, Charles River Wetlands
Eastern tiger swallowtail larvae eat the leaves of a variety of woody plants including wild cherry, tulip, birch, ash, cottonwood, and willow. Adults eat the nectar of flowers from a variety of plants including butterfly bush, milkweed, Japanese honeysuckle, phlox, lilac, ironweed, and wild cherry.
Still in bed, having coffee, Frank gone, and a dear friend texts—am I up? Free to talk? We have been trying to connect by phone for at least a week. Soon, I dress, and take Charlie out. It’s chilly! Such coolness this weekend, and the sun out, at least a bit. Weeds galore and I don’t care. My friend and I get to talk. She will walk too. But she can’t find her hat. I am wearing my hat. We get lost, talking, her in the Michigan woods, me in the Charles River woods. Such happiness, this deep dive with a decades old friendship. I process an issue running a group; she processes her issue with a research project. We talk family, kids, change. Her Tarot reading as drawn the death/rebirth card, thank goodness. She finds her hat in the woods! I stop and take a snap of the tiger swallowtail that’s visiting the fragrant weeds and wildflowers and grasses at the Charles River wetlands. A miles long conversation comes to end when I reach home. I use some writing time today; the house quiet, and bags from our trip still piled in the front hall. I draft a poem that has been on my mind; maybe the final poem of my full length manuscript. The rest of the day, I live with it, wonder about it. Hope for it to be what it will be.