Tag Archives: summer

best gift.

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on an adventure on glen lake

“actually, the best gift you could have given them was a lifetime of adventures.”

-lewis carroll

quiet here.

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a welcome return to the lake

“the world is quiet here.”

-lemony snicket

 

 

glen lake, empire, michigan, usa – june 2021

reindeer on summer holiday.

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a very rare sighting of a reindeer

on holiday in the urban wild

on the first day of summer

 

“herds of reindeer move across miles and miles of golden moss.”

-w.h. auden

 

today is the day.

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happy solstice

“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

 

 

 

 

image credit: google images

that’s life in june.

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floating back on top in argo park
That’s life
(That’s life)
That’s what all the people say
You’re riding high in April, shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
When I’m back on top, back on top in June
-Frank Sinatra “That’s Life”

the sunday.

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august is the sunday of summer.

-author unknown

pollinating.

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summer bursts open in the field

 

“earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.”

-neil young

shoes.

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shoes left behind

no need for these when you find the river.

 

“let your shoes take you to where your happiness grows.”

-anthony t. hincks

paddle.

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roads filled with cars

topped with kayaks, canoes, rafts

seeking water

going upstream

on a streak of hot summer days

looking like soldiers off to do battle

armed with water toys and sunscreen.

“as one goes through life,

one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe,

you don’t move.” 

-katherine hepburn

july light.

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“that beautiful season the summer! 

filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; 

and the landscape 

lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”

–  henry wadsworth longfellow

 

 

 

 

image credit: the firefly dance, pinterest