What is normal or average anymore? It seems that days are spread out more like a delicately hand-stitched quilt laying loosely across a large bed . . . not in triangles or squares but in free-form patterns that hardly relate to one another except in hues. Vivid colors, with a play of values, fills the eyes and dreams of those that slip beneath basted layers of wrinkled cloth . . .  pieces torn and recombined.Such are our New England August days, once felt to be the warmest of the summer. … [Read more...] about Hot Colors of Cool August Butterflies and a Bestiary of Birds