Quote of the Day

 

High noon in August! over all the land
The very air is palpitant withheat;
While stretching far, the fields of ripening wheat
Unrippled lie as plains of yellow sand. ~ Henry Sylvester Cornwell

Quote of the Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

A moon-flooded prairie; a straying
Of leal-hearted lovers; a baying
Of far-away watching dogs; a dreaming
Of brown-fisted farmers; a gleaming
Of fireflies eddying nigh - 
And that is July! ~ James N. Matthews

I Blame The Democrats

 

I've come down with prickly heat.

Quote of the Day

 

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. ~ ee cummings

Quote of the Day

image from the Graphics Fairy

When April steps aside for May,

Like diamonds all the raindrops glisten.

Fresh violets open every day,

To some new bird each hour we listen. ~ Lucy Larcom

Quote of the Day

 

 

Whoever makes a garden

Has never worked alone;

The rain has alway found it,

The sun has always known. ~ Douglas Malloch

Welcome To The Midwest

 

I Hab Caught Anodder Code

 

I just hope it's the last one for this winter.

Grrrsday

 

Caturday!

 

Vintage Advertising - Campbell's Soup

 

American Woman, July 1931

Quote of the Day

 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. ~ Robert Frost

Target of Opportunity

 

Brian has been getting out of bed early to go to work, and someone is taking advantage.

(*corn and soybean harvesting with his BIL).

Tis Autumn Equinox

 

AKA the day people in Chicago jam Randolph Street near Millennial Park to get a photo of the sunset aligning perfectly with the east-west street grid.

Quote Of The Day

 

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. ~ Laurie Colwin

And It's August Already

 I feel his pain.

Welcome to Summer in the Midwest

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

Quote of the Day

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has softened almost to a sigh.  It is July. ~ Susan Hartley Swett

Vintage Magazines - Good Housekeeping, July, 1921

 

National Gardening Week

 

image from Swanson's Nursery.