… my Garrett Park garden.
After having been away for two weeks.
1. Six rabbits — teens, toddlers — play leapfrog all over my front lawn. Nearby, lying down on a bit of green between a clump of hosta and a clump of liriope, a mother rabbit watches them.
2. In the forest behind the house, a doe leads two spotted fawns through honeysuckle bushes. The fawns trip and tremble on their long stiff legs.
3. All daylily flowers have been decapitated. Ditto hosta flowers.
4. My friend Kim has taken my suggestion and stuffed my bulls with fresh green and hay-colored sphagnum moss.
5. From the bedroom window, I watch the latest cardinal nest shimmy and shake with activity.
6. The Good Humor truck, tooting down the street, scatters the rabbits.
(I found the picture here.)