'Summer Child'

The Folklore green is a color that belongs to one hour in late May when the garden goes fully saturated after rain. Not the aggressive green of high summer, not the tentative green of spring — this is the green of before-summer, the green that looks artificial to people who haven’t spent much time outdoors and exactly right to people who have. Here it is the ground that makes everything else possible: the context that lets the verbena stack its purple, that lets the bridal veil spirea trail its lace, that lets the grapevine blooms hold their small rounded forms. The bronze balls give it weight. The green gives it life.

There is a particular joy that belongs to summer that has not yet become routine. The bracelet wears that feeling the way a child wears summer — without reservation, without apology, without any particular plan for how it should end.

This bracelet is for the woman who has been called too much — and who considers that a compliment.