June Greening

        June Greening

June grasses are golden

 



Our cherry tree late April



Cherry tree in June (only one cherry though! Perhaps more next year.)

 

 

 

 

 

 



June and the roadside trees are sprouting at last

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alkinoos’ Garden

From The Odyssey, book v111   Homer, 9th century B.C.

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

 

To left and right, outside, he saw an orchard

closed by a pale – four spacious acres planted

With trees in bloom or weighted down for picking:

pear trees, pomegranates, brilliant apples,

luscious figs, and olives ripe and dark.

 

 



The greening in our Vegetable Garden

After the vines came rows of vegetables

of all the kinds that flourish in every season,

and through the garden plots and orchard ran

channels from one clear fountain, while another

rushed through apipe under the courtyard entrance

to serve the house and all who came for water.

 

These were the gifts of heaven to Alkinoos.  

 

Quoted from Greece In Poetry, edited by Simoni Zafiropoulos