Green and open days

“Summer Twilight, a Recollection of a Scene in New England’’ (1834), by Thomas Cole (1801-1848)

“Two Boys Playing at the Creek” (1883), photo by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), one of America’s most celebrated painters.

“There’s Little League,
Hopscotch, the creek,
And, after supper,
Hide-and-seek.’’

— From “June,’’ by John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist, poet, critic and essayist. He spent most of life on the Massachusetts North Shore.

Here’s the whole poem.