“green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of june trembled like a butterfly.”
-pablo neruda, 100 love sonnets
Jun2
Tag Archives: summer
Sep11
a million flowers.
“bees do have a smell, you know,
and if they don’t they should,
for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
-ray bradbury – dandelion wine
—
summer 2018, ann arbor
Sep4
the crossing.
word has it the littles are headed to england.
hopefully they’re back in the states
in time for the first day of school today.
—
“you can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
-rabindranath tagore
—
glen lake, empire, michigan – summer 2018
Sep2
ghosts.
littles
playing, creeping, tiptoeing
ghosts in the graveyard
scaring themselves to death
screaming, spooky, squealing, shrieking
so much fun.
“while it’s cool to think ghosts exist, i don’t want to see one.”
-dean ambrose
Aug29
significant.
silence on a hot summer night in ann arbor
—
“the most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”
-simon van boy
Aug19
midnight.
floating on the lake at midnight in the quiet air
—
“there is a budding tomorrow in midnight.”
– john keats
—
irish hills, michigan, usa – summer 2018
Aug15
how hot is it?
my candle quietly answers the question.
—
“what dreadful hot weather we have!
it keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
-jane austen
Aug6
summer christmas.
is it one of the hottest days of summer?
is it time for our annual
christmas in july/august celebration?
absolutely.
with long-time friends
turkey dinner
wine
christmas cookies
stories
and
odds and ends re-gifts to each other
that we’re highly likely
to re-gift to someone else at a later date
no reason to keep the joy of giving all to ourselves.
—
‘christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.”
-bryan white
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image credit: pinterest vintage, petticoats and pistols
Aug5
melted heart.
lucky encounter
of a piece of summer’s art –
when crossing paths
with a melted ice cream heart.
—
“besides being a useful adjunct to courtship,
ice-cream is often employed to feed poets upon.”
~”A Few Casual Remarks on Ice-Cream,” Puck, 1881
Aug4
simplicity.
finding summer simplicity
blue fairies
“truth is ever to be found in simplicity,
and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
-isaac newton
I didn't have my glasses on.... 