Fittingly, our long spate of gray/foggy/rainy weather broke Sunday evening, the eve of Memorial day’s opening of unofficial summer. As you see here, the sun was sinking in the northwest, burnishing the spruce tops on Babson Island in Great Cove and creating a spruce shadow dusk in the greening north field:
Early the next morning – Memorial Day’s awakening – the rising sun reached the field from the east and revealed one of our neighbors who had spent the night there in the newly-lush wild grasses:
She decided to be lazy on the first day of summer and basked there for more than an hour before ambling away into a beautiful summer’s day. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 25 and 26, 2025.)