Detail Diary, Vol #17
Summer's most earnest green
June 2-29, 2024
Dear friend,
I’ve somehow let all of June pile into one Detail Diary volume. It has been a June full of flowers of both valley and mountain varieties; screaming swifts and summer’s most earnest green; rainclouds flirting with heat but not committing until this last week.
Included are forays up the slopes of the nearby Vercors mountains (a more extensive post here); the more distant French Alps, Vanoise National Park, for field work (post coming); and Davos, the far end of Switzerland, where I attended the World Biodiversity Forum (post also coming, when I finish reading The Magic Mountain).
A few notes:
If you’re new here, welcome to my Detail Diary, where I catch at bits of color and texture and season from my surroudings (almost) every day and post them on Substack Notes. In this recap, I’ve embedded the Notes from the last month. For more instructions, see below.
In general, I send out a newsletter no more than once a week. For a while, the Detail Diary recaps like this one came every two weeks. However, I’m finding that I have so many ideas piling up to post that I may need to start sending out recaps less frequently. If you’re a Detail Diary enthusiast or casual passerby, a user of Substack Notes or not, let me know what you think about sifting through a whole month’s worth of notes like this. Is it too much?
Finally, I will be breaking my once-a-week pattern this weekend for another reason. A year ago, I wrote an essay in the wake of a friend’s death. Lately that essay has been nudging me. It’s a bit different from what I usually share here, but it feels like it’s time. It will come tomorrow.
Here is your usual reminder that this post is best viewed on the web or in the Substack app. (From email, click on the title of the post or “Read in app.”) Clicking on a Note will also take you to the browser/app to see its full text and additional photos. For an introduction to my Detail Diary, see here, or peruse past volumes.
A Detail Diary-esque musing from my late grandpa made its way in here. Click to see the full text.
I enjoyed seeing these notes in one place. I don't always catch them on the notes feed.
The more the merrier