…doesn’t have anything to do with this post but I just love the subject line – came to me during an afternoon nap I was taking in our cool, dark bedroom on a very hot day.

Here’s some great poetry for June I love – especially the first couple of lines of the second stanza, which characterizes our days to a “T”:

“Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy’s inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Summer Sun

Hat tip: egreenway.com

Interesting to see how hot it is and will be so early here in the Valley of the Sun and the course of the first tropical storm of the season. Might both be a harbinger of the months to come? If so, it’s gonna be a long, long summer.

My video of the day – we went past here last week!

And remembering the heroes of this anniversary. God bless them for their courage and sacrifice.