This morning began with heavy air…humid and overcast. Karl did not come out of his closet when I went outside. I believe that he feels the humidity and equates that with weather he’d rather avoid.

I decided that we’d change up the routine and putter about the woods this morning. I had to coax him outside but when I finally did, the air had cleared and dried and the sky was blue.

The lupins at the park by Flathead Lake are going to seed and looking bedraggled. But our lupins have a little more time.

The mountains, the sunlight in the woods on the grass, trees and lichen…the bumper crop of lupins – they all seem especially gorgeous this year.

And sometimes a beardog walks through the lupins…

…and meets up with his cat, which apparently is funny – at least funny enough to make a beardog smile!

But then there is a stick…

…and then we all walk home…through the lupins.