Violets, Belfast, ME

 Violets in the grass in Belfast.

Old red tractor wheel, Belfast, ME

 Wheel of the old red tractor, resting in soft surrounding grass.

Old red tractor guts, Belfast, ME

Mechanical guts of this old red tractor, the sort of pre-electronic systems that will never much be built again, any more than belt-driven factories will be.

Old red tractor, Belfast, ME

 Old red tractor from the front.

Old red tractor, Belfast, ME

 Old red tractor, now serving its final purpose in life as farmland decoration.

Red cover crop, Belfast, ME

Red influorescences on part of the mixed cover in the fields.

Diatomaceous apples, Belfast, ME

Another view of spotty earthen apple leaves. I love the stiff curvaceous shapes they hold.

Diatomaceous apples, Belfast, ME

Apple tree leaves spread with diatomaceous earth as an organic pesticide, giving them a patchy muddy look.

Buttercups, Belfast, ME

 A wide spread of buttercups, threading through the stalks of taller grass around them.

Buttercups, Belfast, ME

Buttercups in a field. An utterly common and banal flower, yet still beautiful all the same.

Spreading leaves, Belfast, ME

 Layers of sun-soaked healthy leaves spreading against the June sky.

Popcorn flowers, Belfast, ME

 I don't know what this tree is, but its exuberant bursts of flower make me think of popcorn.

Strawberry rows, Belfast, ME

 Row of strawberry plants gearing up for the season on my sister-in-law's farm.

Ferns, Belfast, ME

 A carpet of small ferns in swampy woodland.

Swamp flower, Belfast, ME

A very Georgia O'Keefe-looking bulbous swamp flower, standing pink and proud.

Canadian dogwood, Belfast, ME

Four-pointed blooms of short Canadian Dogwood, a favorite flower of mine that clings tenaciously to many alpine slopes.

Stone path on the hill, Belfast, ME

 This broad stone path carries both hikers and harvesting equipment up the blueberry fields.

Blueberry Hill, Belfast, ME

Another view up the hill, puffy white clouds and distant trees creeping over the rolling swath of berry bushes.

Blueberry Hill, Belfast, ME

A hillside of blueberry plants against the clear blue sky. The fields on this hill are a commercial operation, but also is open for the public to walk its trails.

Budding grapes, Belfast, ME

From a trip to visit my family in Maine last summer: tiny budding grapes on a vine hanging in their garden trellis.

Veronica being near her people

 Near the end, thin and frail, Veronica chose to spend all her time just being near her people in the kitchen.