Monday's postcard, and a summer solstice field trip

June 19, 2023

Blooming canola just west of the Viola, ID cemetery, photographed last Thursday

First and foremost—Happy Juneteenth, the day we get to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. by commemorating the belated arrival (two years later) of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX. Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, beginning today.

I’ll be a…