This photograph epitomizes early Michigan summers. Everything is growing full tilt and shades of yellow-green surround us. There is a point in the summer where the colors change to blue-greens as heat ends the growth spurt. In early summer, there is no sound as breezes move through the trees. Then it changes. By August, the sound of paper-hitting-paper is heard as dried leaves slap against each other. But now, as July begins, evening sunlight filters through hedgerows creating living walls of stained glass in all shades of green with patches of sky here and there.
Beautiful words and image,Doug! There’s also a bronze cast to the greens in late August that suggests “game’s over.”