Hot days of heat followed by sultry nights
A yellow sun hiding behind mounding white clouds
Heavy diamond dew clinging to webs
Cookouts, barbeques, and grillin’
Red checked, July 4th picnics
Independence and a firecracker sister’s birthday
Spiders sparkling in a navy blue night sky
The first come-on of red tomatoes
Moths, Mantises and Monarchs
In the sun and under the stars
Ditch lilies and Queen Anne’s lace gracing the roadside
Marigolds, cosmos, and zinnias colorful in the garden
Juicy to the elbow watermelon, blueberries and peaches
Buttered corn on the cob dripping down smiling faces
Plodding through sand and races to the ocean
Lakeside views from inside canoes
Cracking bats, flying legs, and home again
Ice cream evenings, sticky and sweet
Slumbering to a lullaby of cicadas and peepers
H a p p y J u l y !
