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Unidentified very large Wasp on Butterfly Bush blossoms

© C. Statton DiFiori

My Granddaughter Chloe enjoying a family party in the garden

This time of the year is great for the beautiful yellow fields of Canola that are very common in the UK. The colours can be quite amazing at times, although the flowers do have a strong smell for sure!!!

Everything's gonna be OK

6412 working alongside the River Dart on a glorious summers day. It doesn't get anymore picturesque than this at Dartington Meadows. The Pannier Tank was working the 1300 from Totnes Riverside to Buckfastleigh.

I knew I shouldn't have said yesterday that we had left winter behind! This is the sight which greeted me this morning now that we have gone over to summertime :-(.

There's a fjord in the background somewhere.....

I was walking along the park and wanted to express the typical city mood.

 

Summertime and the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high

Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'

So hush, little baby; don't you cry

 

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing

And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky

But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you

With daddy and mammy standin' by...

George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

  

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old photo gave it a ne new touch with Ipiccy

Tomás

one of my grandsons

Algave

Portugal

Our prime Beach among the top 100 according to American magazine. Sand storm,few people in Winther cloths....

Mt. Moran & the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park

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Thank you all for stopping by for a look of summer fun. I appreciate your wonderful comments and awards and invites.

Texture by Tim in Ohio87

“Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.”

 

- Nat Wolff

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_-8Iv_Bk8

HOW WONDERFUL YOU ARE – GORDON HASKELL

 

SUMMERTIME JAZZ

 

Dazzle the world with your eyes of brown

play jazz to me in the long languid nights

play love songs; add flat notes

on the ebony & ivory in old downtown

play the blues on the keys in old Harry's bar

in the old ways of love we dreamed from afar;

look at me darling with your eyes subdued

Passion will do that; create a misty view

in the smoky-hazed cafes where I made love to you

amid the profanities; beguiling acts and the air so blue

Frazzle the world with your heart deep blood red

play sweet platitudes where you're generously fed

Bejazzle the world with white diamonds so bright

the envy of all the bright stars in the sky tonight

Strum with your fingers all the songs that I know

play violin, cello with Cupid's sweet bow

Melancholy, solemnity finds no place to go

when you are near and can whisper all the love that you show

pluck at the strings of a heavenly harp

paint me a rainbow in the colours of Koi carp

there's nothing we can't do when it feels so right

dance me away from the mellow street lights

to the sultry back streets and alleys so dark

the danger is intoxicating;

vibrating and pulsing through our veins

we take any risk to flood our blood

with adrenalin to pour down the drains

we are young, free and stupid with love

and music playing songs in our heads; lullabies in bed;

up with the larks; burn the candle both ends

jazz, blues and passion and brandied sweet kisses

warm yet contentious, but never pretentious

we argue so heatedly; so honestly fraught

with all of the knowledge our education bought

we make rash assumptions

act without gumption

but when the sparks fly; we know then we're too young to die

yet we still push our luck; risk our lives for a buck

betting and staking all that we have

the shirt off your back; the knowledge we lack

about life we're still learning

about love we're still yearning

we want to grow old just so we can say

we misspent our youth in the most glorious of ways ...

 

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pleasures of the harbor

Field of yellow wild flowers in Nova Scotia last summer.

youtu.be/_HwAqTUqGKM

 

Butterscotch: summertime ..

It was good while it lasted...

 

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A field of daisies in he eveningsun

One of the many scenic farm fields to be seen in Chester County, Pennsylvania, a short distance from the Maryland border.

I think this is the place to be right now, but due to my schedule, I won't be able to get up there in the next couple of days. Hope some of you hardcores, get up there and make some images...

A beautiful pink columbine in the forest

 

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Whether you like it or not we are getting at the end of Summer but we are not quite there yet. My caption is rather related to what I believe to be the name of that flower that the Rufous Hummingbird is visiting. ”Campanula-summertime-blues-bellflower” We moved here in December and there are many areas of the garden I am not familiar with. What a nice surprise to find that little visitor in the Campanula. The flowers are really tiny, smaller than foxglove bells. The Rufous can put it whole head in the Foxglove, not in this Campanula.

The presence of a Rufous Hummingbird is also unusual for us at this time of the year. We have Anna’s hummingbirds all year-round but Rufous are normaly gone by the beginning of August. I noticed today that there are other pollinators in the waiting room for that Bellflower Shrub, the bees love it too… The whole body of the bee fits so nicely in these little bells, unless you pay attention, you do not notice their presence in there. Perhaps an image of the bees visiting this Campanula in the near future. :)

 

www.gardenia.net/plant/campanula-summertime-blues-bellflower

  

PS I prefer the birds of the Fall and those of the Winter so I do not really have the blues about Summer being on its way out :).

 

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