Dreck

Nature in summertime provides us with an endless array of color from myriad types of wild and cultivated flowering plants and cheerful songbirds. But mankind’s intervention on this scene is dreckish. First a mere dozen horses cannot clip-clop or drop manure onto Boston’s streets anymore because of budget cuts. Next a government program this summer provides needy clients freebie air conditioners and funds to assist in paying for running them. This just spreads the manure of irresponsibility. Lastly, another government program encourages bird droppings by paying farmers to cut their hayfields and to delay cutting their hayfields at times helpful to a few songbirds’ nesting times. The summer madness heats up; get ready to inhale the dreck.