The Beautiful Season Of Summer

"Keep umbrellas handy;

Yankee Doodle Dandy!

Bathers wearing

less and less go

out to swim

and dine

al fresco.

Thunderheads

tower

preceding

a shower.

Smear on

lotion

with a trowel;

near an ocean

spread your towel."

The Old Farmer's Almanac

(1992)

Boy Into The Surf

Barbara Rosenzweig

"The Lord appointed the moon

for the seasons; the sun knows the

exact time of its setting."

Psalm 104:19

Sunset At the Broken Pier

Ocean City, New Jersey

That beautiful season the Summer!

Filled was the air with

 a dreamy and magical light;

And the landscape

Lay as if new created 

in all the freshness of childhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Le Carousel at Bryant Park

Patti Mollica

Monarch Butterflies and Bachelor Button 

Thy Spirit, O Lord, makes life to abound,
The earth is renewed, and fruitful the ground;
To God ascribe the glory and wisdom and might,
Let God in His creatures forever delight.
Charles H. Gabriel