I promised you peonies. Here, at last, are but a few of the thousands unfolding their hearts at Gilsland Farm right this very moment. You'll notice that while many are planted and carefully kept in the gardens, others are allowed to grow among the wildflowers in the fields. I love them grown both ways.
Tucked in with the photos I've included a few translated haiku about peonies. Wishing my friends in the Northern Hemisphere a Happy Summer Solstice. I'm off to climb a mountain now. A little one, but a mountain nonetheless.
My rice bowl
filled to the brim
one peony
~Buson
My hut garden
is narrowed by
blooming peonies
~Nabuti Sato
"The peony is this big!"--
the child's arms
outstretched.
~Issa
In the stillness
between the arrival of guests--
the peony.
~Buson
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