June 26, 2025

Since these bushes were put in several years ago, memories come back to me every summer in late June. Memories of Red Currants (Ribes rubrum).

And childhood memories of the Godshall family reunions held every summer on Hill Road in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, where I’d have such fun getting together with my precious cousins. Wonderful food, A-Treat Soda, boulders here and there that each had its own name like “The Rocket”, quoit (pronounced kwait) pits next to the bushes that grew ruby-like fruit.

Those Red Currants are ripe, looking like rich red gems right now, and the birds are enjoying them. Yesterday morning as I was pulling out of the garage, on the way to yoga, I spotted a Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) having a breakfast of my memories.

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