Tag Archives: summer

Jun21

summer music.

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on the first day of summer and make music day –

when music and summer are one.

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 Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. Make Music returns to Ann Arbor for another wonderful day of music in 2025.

Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public.

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“in summer, the song sings itself.”

― William Carlos Williams

Jul26

the show at day’s end.

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“the sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

-pamela hansford johnson

 

 

 

 

 

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summer on glen lake, empire/glen arbor, michigan, usa

 

 

Jun26

listen to the mockingbird.

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“summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots,

or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat;

it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

– harper lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

one of my all-time favorite books and movies and here were are once again, in summer.

i even played ‘scout’ once in a scene of a play, and it was something.

 

 

 

 

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credits: j.b.  lippincott & co., universal pictures

Jun25

heat wave.

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not my bear, not my state, not my deck

but i get it

everyone needs relief from the heat

such extreme weather

just a quick over the shoulder glance

and then –

relief

you find it where you can

careful not to bother anyone else in the process.

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‘if you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?’

-steven wright

 

 

 

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image credit: nature is amazing

Jun21

up and down.

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or both.

welcome summer.

coming in hot.

Aug5

that august time.

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“that august time it was delight. to watch the red moons wane to white.”

-algernon charles swinburne

 

 

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image credit: *kevin henkes, ‘kitten’s first full moon’

*one of my fav authors/illustrators of children’s books

Jul4

4th.

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happy 4th of july, may you celebrate your independence today and every day

Jul2

blind date.

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exploring saginaw forest

 

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“july is a blind date with summer.”

*-hal borland

 

*Harold “Hal” Glen Borland was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New York Times

1900 – 1978

 

 

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summer 2023, ann arbor, michigan, usa

 

Jun21

this is the solstice.

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Midsummer or Estival Solstice is the 1st day of summer when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky.

The term solstice is derived from the Latin words Sol (sun) and Sistere (to stand still) because the sun’s position at noon does not appear to change much during the solstice and the surrounding days, unlike at other times where the Earth’s tilt causes the sun’s path to rise and fall from one day to the next.

 

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“this is the solstice,

the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight,

the year’s threshold and unlocking,

where the past lets go of and becomes the future;

the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar…”

― margaret atwood

Jun13

youth.

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a sure sign –

a bike hurriedly tossed on its side

no doubt someone excited to play

if i had to guess

i’d say there is a child on summer vacation

somewhere nearby.

 

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“youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

-henry wadsworth longfellow