kitten

libby, the kitten.
there is a lot of playing with anything that moves, or that might move.
and periods of intense napping.
her purr is bigger than she is.
the senior citizen cat is tolerating. mostly by avoidance and an occasional pissed-off growl.

august

Orchestra at square dance in McIntosh County, Okla. (Library of Congress)

 

I don't have a lot to say about August.

I do like this picture though. And I'd liked to have spent an evening listening to those two play.

(loc photo collection)

gloaming

twilight. dusk. a.k.a. when the fireflies come out & the cicadas are in full chorus.

activities

this weekend, a 4-hr float trip down Cedar Creek with beer & innertubes. and then our 3rd annual bicycling tour of gardens. with this year, many new friends attending.

all very fun. and a sign that summer's end is near.

a.word.a.day gloaming

gloaming 

 

PRONUNCIATION:

(GLO-ming)

MEANING:

noun: Twilight; dusk.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung, from glom (dusk). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera.

 

at sunset

america

the holiday weekend a very wet & cloudy one. but rain or shine, fireworks have been exploding all over for days.

picked

my first tomato. picked & eaten. another taste of summertime.

last night, happy visiting with friends in town to see family. tonight, birthday party fun for a bourbon-drinking friend I couldn't live in this town without.

ticket

a present came in the mail today. so far away, yet so close too.

summer

the smell of basil. definitely summer.

dad

you have always been there. thanks for being one of the great ones.
happy father's day.

there, for just a moment.

finding shade

though the senior citizen is content to keep cool by napping on a shady back porch, I'm quite happy to have air conditioning again.

week past

 this lily bloomed. my mother gave it to me awhile ago. and it finally decided this was the summer to bloom.

















it rained some.

I tried to take a picture of the lightning bugs. it didn't work. but, they were out there. quietly blinking as they floated about.

the a/c will be installed next week.  I look forward to having someplace cool to sleep again.

it is summer here. even the nights are warm.

heat rising

summertime. is among other things, when your air conditioning decides to go out.

and you become thankful for whoever it was that installed your attic fan.
and you discover that new air conditioning, costs a pretty penny.

in the hills

had a very fun time in missouri. with friends & family. took some blurry photos. ate good food. cooled off in a swimmin' hole. helped bake mulberry pies. then ate them for breakfast. slept in a tent, with nature buzzing outside. visited with people I've known forever and for only a few years.

by the light

for the past few nights, we've had this very bright moon.

doll in the cake

I was reminded this year, by the attentions of my friends & family,

of how lucky I am, to have them help me to celebrate my birthday. even when I'm not all that thrilled by another birthday.

(above, a birthday past. two chubby-cheeked, sun-tanned children. with a special cake made by a great-aunt, which only had the top half of the doll (no legs). I remember being disappointed, when realizing the doll wasn't really a doll, but just a cake decoration.)

thank you.

may

storms, poppies & peonies, planting seeds, wearing flip-flops, strawberries out of the garden, feeling sun on skin, open windows, night breezes to sleep to.
gifts with the mail. and zwiebach & coffee, followed by a walk on the farm.


 may is a good month for a birthday.