Clear and cool—the first morning of a dry high. A hummingbird visits the orange jewelweed below the porch. A pungent,...

Clear and cool—the first morning of a dry high. A hummingbird visits the orange jewelweed below the porch. A pungent, camphor-like odor makes me think of blossoming yarrow, but I finally decide instead it’s coming from the black locust limbs smashed down in a storm more than a week ago.