Morning coffee on the battered porch. Paint peeling from cracked wood where solitary wasps store food. The cottage garden a smear of poppies, lilies, dahlia. Structural miscanthus. Moths and butterflies swarming replenished ornamental beds. Purple emperor, sorrow mantle, red admiral, pallas' fritillary, hummingbird hawk-moth, five-spot burnet.
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