Sunday's postcard, and Dreams of the Blue Dragonflies

May 21, 2023

Long-leaved lupine and lomatium near Fishtrap, WA

Blue Darners, and such

At a scabland pond within range of my bicycle a wet spring gives rise to a bumper crop of woolly mullein, a tall, large-leaved plant that culminates in a single, thick spire with a smattering of small, yellow flowers. Bordering the cattails and interspersed among tall grass and firew…