Monday, June 30, 2014

End of June

Beginning of the week, lots of catch up and to-do's, calls and clean-up.  Lemon bars cooling, chicken curry to make, quilting and qigong practiced.   

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Late June

The yard is filling up with rose of sharon, sunchokes, grapes, mulberries, and blackberries, oh my.  Profusion! The male tree of heaven has saturated everything with tiny blossoms and the flies are drawn to the fallen blooms. Abundance and fecundity everywhere!

Friday, June 27, 2014

Hooray it's Friday

For me that means cleaning and laundry to get ready for the weekend.  Just finished a new painting to share as well, tomorrow maybe.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

88 degrees today

It is warming up, may have seen the first lightning bugs last evening.  The thunderheads are piling up high and white above, dark below.  Summertime in PA.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Midsummer or Midsummer's eve

Most places the latter, Croatia the former.
Here is my
Midsummer's Eve quilt to celebrate this special time of year.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Solistice dawn

Raucous bird song rose up as the gold, orange, raspberry waves of colors streamed from the eastern horizon, squeezed under the lid of clouds; long, lingering and intense until all was overcast, left with the lush verdure against the neutral sky.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Refreshing break

The storms rolled through, the heat rolled out, hooray!
Lovely end to a beautiful spring.
The roses, lilies and spirea are laden with blooms, weighed down by their bounty of beauty.
We have celebrated with fresh organic green salads, fruit salads of melons and berries, veggie pastas rich with Croatian olive oil and fresh herbs from their pots, all the richness and ripeness of the season bursting with savory flavors.
Enjoyed with the background music of the birds, the passing drenching downpours and the light murmur of drowsy conversations.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Heat's coming

Close the doors and shutter the windows -
heat's coming.
The onslaught may go on for days...
Chill the teas
lay out the percale
the hot days are here!

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Father's Day

The rising sun
chased the waning full moon
off to the west this morning

Friday, June 13, 2014

Thursday, June 12, 2014

the lawn

Stars of clover
whiten the lawn
the tree of heaven is in bloom again

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

June

Thunderstorms boom in the night awaking us
foliage hangs heavily after the rains
the roses can barely keep their petals on
and the mulberries speckle the walks

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Late spring

the net of honeysuckle scent
catches us unawares
on a damp, gray morning