August

Oh, those lazy. crazy days of summer! Vacation is halfway over, but the kids don't want to know about THAT! (but Moms are thinking, Roll on September!)

We can't go to bed yet, it's still light outside!

Farmers are looking forward to the harvest, watching the skies and hoping for either more or less rain. fresh vegetables are in abundance, and farmers markets are busy. Flower gardens are in their prime. Bees are buzzing and grass is growing - and oh, the smell of fresh cut grass! or of the popcorn and peanuts at a baseball game!

Colour: chartreuse, a pale green

Birthstone: peridot

Flower: gladiolus, representing strength and sincerity

Animal: camel
Holidays:  International Friendship Day, Civic holiday (Canada)

Random Pages: market stalls, fruits, vegetables, flowers, porches, picnics, boats

Quotes: 

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. ~Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

"August rushes by like desert rainfall,
A flood of frenzied upheaval,
Expected,
But still catching me unprepared.
Like a matchflame
Bursting on the scene,
Heat and haze of crimson sunsets.
Like a dream
Of moon and dark barely recalled,
A moment,
Shadows caught in a blink.
Like a quick kiss;
One wishes for more
But it suddenly turns to leave,
Dragging summer away."
-  Elizabeth Maua Taylor 

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

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