Where Summer sits braiding her warm, white brows
With bramble-roses...here you may meet with Beauty.

(Madison Cawein, 1865-1914)*_________________________________________ ( Read more... )

My new favorite summer drink is flavored vodka, Absolut Apeach, originally tasted as a 1.50 sample bottle from The Party Source. I love sampling those tiny bottles, tiny exotic treats, better than dessert. (My first real encounter with alcohol was sampling a group of mysterious bottles at his out-of-town aunt's house with my now-ex-husband, young ( Read more... )

To soothe myself*, I will post a picture of Something Pretty. It's from my wee backyard -- a blooming vine with the most beautiful deep-purplish-blue flowers. Does anyone recognize what they are?


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If the weather was like this all summer long, I would start to like summer ( Read more... )

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare ( Read more... )

I greatly enjoyed my evening constitutional, as usual. ( Read more... )