Aug 09 2009
Summer in Full Bloom
It’s summer in Northampton, Massachusetts and although it has been a rainy summer, the gardens at the Northampton Community Gardens couldn’t be more beautiful this year.
The community gardens in Northampton are a series of plots that locals rent from the Northampton Recreation Department for a nominal fee and tend throughout the summer. You never know what you are going to find planted here in these gardens, but most take a huge amount of pride in their plot, planting harvestable vegetables and beautiful flowers.
I took this picture on a walk a few days ago, when the weather was one of the top five days of the year with 75 degrees and a light breeze. The sunflowers and black eyed susans are in full bloom and can be seen in almost every plot at the Northampton Community Gardens.
I visit often the gardens often and I love to see how they change throughout the growing season.
I followed this monarch butterfly as it flitted around the gardens looking for the right place to find some nectar. Finally the monarch butterfly settled on this flower and I was able to catch a picture of it. Summer in Northampton, I love it here.
