Ah..........hot and sunny....hazy and humid...a 'dog day' of summer......

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown


Then followed that beautiful season... 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

I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. ~Terri Guillemets

Time to daydream...knowing fall is just 'around the corner'....take in the moment and enjoy...with a cold glass of iced tea...

The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn. ~Terri Guillemets

Sooo much rain....every bit of sun that peeks through is to be treasured....

Enjoy the day.....each moment that makes you smile...♥

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure. ~Alvaro Velasco

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra


We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky,

A rainy, stormy summer day...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. ~John Lubbock


Hot and steamy outside......I remember running out in the rain when I was young....it was so refreshing...such fun....



Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

I hope you all take the time to 
enjoy the beauty around you, when ever you can...
take a look at the hue of a softened sky-
to the green of the trees and the grace of nature-
the birds that gather-the songs that they sing-take a
deep breath find joy in simple things..we never know

what life has in store for us tomorrow.

Have joy filled day.....♥

Another summer...

A year has passed...so much happening....but once again summer is here...the sweet soft scents in the air...the warm sun on the skin...the rainy days ...the hot days...and the cooler ones when I can open the windows...hear the birds singing their songs....all back once again. 
The fruits.....the berries...yum... the ice cream that just tastes that much better in the summer....the corn and all that comes with the season...so special. 
Life seems to pass so quickly......you have to take it all in, enjoy it while we have it.

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker


A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

The luxury of all summer's sweet sensation is to be found when one lies at length in the warm, fragrant grass, soaked with sunshine, aware of regions of blossoming clover and of a high heaven filled with the hum of innumerous bees. ~Harriet E. Prescott

I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer... come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. ~Oriana Green

Sweet summertime...everything green and lush...birds and bees...smells of flowers and BBQs...fresh fruits and more....mountains and beaches all so beautiful...a special time.

Then followed that beautiful season... 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

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker


A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

"Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it". ~Whitney Griswold

 When Winter's gone to rest,
And Spring is our dear guest;
The Merry May, at break of day,
Comes in gay garlands drest.
The brightest smiles she brings—
Of sweetest hopes she sings
And trips a-pace with dainty grace
And lightest fairy wings.
~S.J. Adair Fitz-Gerald (1859–1925)

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe... ~Evelyn Waugh
 

Winter time....a time of crisp cold wonder.....warm fires...cozy cups of tea......."It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. ~John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine"

 

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers," 1866

 

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

 I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and
nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
~Terri Guillemets

till next time............   

♥ 

 

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face....
~John Donne, "Elegy IX: The Autumnal"
 

My it's been a long time ....so much going on....both good and bad...but Fall is here, almost winter...I just love this time of year...the smells, the beauty, the changing of the leaves...that crisp bite in the air......fresh apples and holidays....

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill, "Virginia Dare: Or, the Colony of Roanoke," 1840
 

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

..and hot cider...yum.........*