"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

 

Salmon Queen

July 19, 2008

 

 

"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."

----Mirabel Osler

 

 

 

Candy Cane

July 19, 2008

 

 

"Hot July brings cooling showers,

Apricots and gillyflowers."

 

-  Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse  

 

A Hollyhock blossom near the fire camp

July 13, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me."

 

-   James Russell Lowell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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