Bees and flowers and August heat

With temps in the upper 90s and extremely high humidity for the past few days, it’s a slow and lazy time here right now. Our temperature tomorrow is predicted to be over a hundred degrees..
At night, I can hear the roar of a million katydids, and during the day, the drone of the bees, sluggish and drunk on abundant nectar.

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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
-Sam Keen

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Bee on pink coneflower

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Bee on wild sunflower

bee and coneflower

bee and butterfly bush

bee and zinnia

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Happy Summer

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;
to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
-Henry James

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
-Sam Keen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that it’s fresh young beauty will ever fade.
-Gertrude Jekyll

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

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Happy Summer!

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A walk in the woods today

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
-Robert L. Stevenson

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree…
-Joyce Kilmer

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Trees give peace to the souls of men.
-Nora Waln

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
-K. W. Baker

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau

The clearest way into the Universe
is through a forest wilderness.
-John Muir

I shall be telling this with a sigh–
somewhere ages and ages hence;
two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost

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June nights

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This photo is one of several I took a few days ago, right at sunset, near my house. The sky was glowing orange-pink and the clouds were dark purple. To see a larger version of this same photo, click here.

First day of summer

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This is a photo of several mixed annuals I have growing in a very crowded container.