“the first week of august hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year,
like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
the weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring,
and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,
but the first week of august is motionless, and hot.
it is curiously silent, too,
with blank white dawns and glaring noons,
and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
-natalie babbitt
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“seasons pursuing each other,
the indescribable crowd is gathered,
it is the fourth of the seventh-month,
what salutes of cannon and other small arms!”
-walt whitman
happy 4th!
summer meets july
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“july is a blind date with summer.”
-hal borland
on an adventure on glen lake
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“actually, the best gift you could have given them was a lifetime of adventures.”
-lewis carroll
a welcome return to the lake
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“the world is quiet here.”
-lemony snicket
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glen lake, empire, michigan, usa – june 2021
a very rare sighting of a reindeer
on holiday in the urban wild
on the first day of summer
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“herds of reindeer move across miles and miles of golden moss.”
-w.h. auden
happy solstice
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“do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
i always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
-f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby
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august is the sunday of summer.
-author unknown
summer bursts open in the field
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“earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.”
-neil young
