Farewell July and Hello August

Hello all, and Happy August! After a week away, yesterday was a bit of a blurtrying to decide what to tackle first; laundry-mountain or garden jungle!! Yesterday was sunny but cool, kindling an intoxicating eagerness for back-to-work! such wonderful work, summer is!My sister texted me while I was shelling peas last night ... or I might have missed July's farewell moon... Finches bicker, green leaves flicker where sunbeams and shadows playWhere each hour is a flower that unfolds then fades awayAnd its petal is the mettle of echo-medleys that waftA succession of impressions etched on Bygone’s breadth, breath-soft, July marches through blue arches; boundless awning overheadVaulted over corn-wheat-clover fields, like quilts that need no threadSpeechless wonder rolls like thunder through heart and soul, awed, agapeWhile man gazes God amazes us with summer’s sanguine cape Garden treasure kindles pleasure unlike any in the worldSpring-time planting now is granting toil and mercy’s fruit unfurledEarth’s effulgence births indulgence; beauty bids duty to drinkPause and savor awe’s full flavor-burst of gold, purple and pink July leaves us; farewell grieves us but August rekindles smilesIt bewitches us where ditches have become wildflower-islesMilkweed plumage, chamomile, sage, Queen Ann’s Lace and chicoryCricket-choir catches fire we can hear but cannot see Hello August, welcome, dew-dust dazzled, frazzled summer-crownSultry, sunny, sweet as honey-suckle run wild and wind-blownCrowded beaches, juice of peaches drips from lip-smacking yes-yes!Rouses gladness from spent sadness; hello August happiness © Janet Martin A little glimpse of last week...at a lakeside cottage Welcome August!