Terrestrial sparks of shooting stars

on dandelions and Jupiter

In between readings and other work, I am trying to spend as much time as possible outside in the forest that runs in a green corridor behind our house here in the Pacific Northwest.

The forest floor at this time of year is a blanket of bluebells and forget-me-not but it is Dandelion that has me enthralled. I sit on a wood stump on a gentle slope near a …