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:: July days... ::


" Summer did come at last and, when it did, it was one of those

summers of poems and stories and country pictures,

a once-upon-a-time summer, it was hot day after day, week after week,

so that we slipped into a dream, where we imagined it never ending,

a paradise world of long, golden days.

Time stretched out into the pale far distance and the mists that girdled the day about,

so that we seemed to be somehow suspended, floating in them.

When we awoke, it was to a soft, pearly mist, like gauze,

that left the faintest veil of damp on the skin and the hair,

and on the grass and the leaves and the wooden fences."


{The Magic Apple Tree : Susan Hill}


A joyful July

new adventures

summer travels.

days so hot

one could melt

thankful for a cool home.

the garden has been a joy

abundant cherry tomatoes

so sweet and dainty

how delicious!

zinnias gracing my

morning with their beauty

cosmos flourishing

such fluttery goodness.

awaiting with bated breath

for the dahlias to put on a show.

the cucumbers and strawberries

decided to take the summer off

from producing

which is understandable considering

the sweltering daily 100 degrees of this month.

next year will be cherry tomatoes

and a cutting garden

for flowers are my greatest joy

(cherry tomatoes, too).

spent languorous afternoons

cuddled up in my library

reading Les Miserable.

to describe the elation and satisfaction

of this literary journey

is hard to put into words.

this astounding novel of humanity,

forgiveneness and love.

oh, July...you were joyous.









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