Late spring has come to Piney Woods Church Road, and everywhere I look I encounter shades of green. After last night’s rainfall, the green is vibrant, pulsing with life. It claims nearly every inch of my journey, apart from the road surface and cloud-filled sky. Splashes of other colors are rare and precious. Here are two gems from my return walk toward Hutcheson Ferry Road. The first is a bull thistle — certainly a pestilential weed, but also the only bit of brilliant magenta along the roadside. The second is a yellow leaf — probably pin cherry — balanced on the edge of a deep green oak leaf.
