Amazing Skies!

Where I live, the skies are simply amazing.
While at times I may long for forests and gurgling streams- I know that what I do have is such a gift.

I photographed these skies over the past three months:

Content copyright © 2014 by Jessa at Graceful Landing

 Content copyright © 2014 by Jessa at Graceful Landing

 Content copyright © 2014 by Jessa at Graceful Landing

Summertime!

One of my posts from last summer that I felt deserved another visit:

 Here, during the dog days of summer, are some reminders to get out and enjoy this wonderful season!  
You'll be wishing you did come winter....

                                                                    Photo by Catskills Grrl


"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." 

~Ada Louise Huxtable

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.  ~John Lubbock

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.  ~Henry James

Then followed that beautiful season... 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

Today

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Out of Eternity
This new day is born:
In to Eternity
At night will return.

Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

—Thomas Carlyle

June

This month has been full of summertime activities.

For Father's Day, we celebrated with a barbecue-


Delicious ribs,

Corn on the cob,

Homemade baked beans,

and cake for dessert.

The Man of the House got lots of hugs, kisses, calls  and homemade cards from his children.

His mom was in town visiting, too, so that made it even more special.

That week, the kids also got some fishing time in with Grandma:

We had delicious trout for dinner one night; cleaned by the kids and cooked by Dad.  Yum!

The kids also had fun playing with their cousins.

June has been a month chock full of Summer!