time to be a little free ... Terri Guillemets

Hey! It’s summer! 

Be free and happy 

and danceful and 

uninhibited and now-y! 

~Terri Guillemets

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1939 Mexican Ambassador's Daughter

tribute to summer ... Author Unknown

 Each fairy breath of summer, 

as it blows with loveliness,

 inspires the blushing rose. 

~Author Unknown

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Location: Ronsom Museum (both photos)
Phoenix, Arizona

reflecting on contrast ... John Steinbeck

What good is 

the warmth of summer, 

without the cold 

of winter to give 

it sweetness. 

~John Steinbeck

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Location: Alaska

the power of summer ... Russel Baker

Ah, summer, 

what power you have

 to make us suffer 

and like it. 

~Russel Baker

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the summer days ... F. Scott Fitzgerald

And so with the sunshine

 and the great bursts 

of leaves growing 

on the trees, 

just as things grow 

in fast movies, 

I had that familiar 

conviction that life was

 beginning over again 

with the summer.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 

The Great Gatsby

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Sun Screen Day! brought to you by Elvis

Truth is like the sun.

You can shut it

 out for a time,

but it ain't goin' away.

~Elvis Presley

Courtesy of Larkin Family Archives

Happy Summer Solstice ... Charles Bowden

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."

— Charles Bowden