Last day to send your “Best Feelings in the World” suggestions to SB SM!
[This is a summer potpourri. I hope you are taking little time to watch the summer clouds drift by … or to dangle the tootsies off the dock … or to sit in the brook on that humid day … or to walk through the fresh-cut summer grass and to step in that pile of still-warm dog shit. That’s a memory you don’t lose easily! Take some time to indulge yourself and to enjoy “when the livin’ is easy.” Banana split, anyone? SB SM]
Take a brief walk through Gilead Gardens, an early morning video by Silverbelle Sandy. Have a seat in the herb garden:
We’ve discovered yet another way to make our smart phones even more essential, the Merlin Bird ID app that does audio identification of the bird sounds around you. The other morning, in the course of my morning coffee, Merlin identified 23 different species!! Try it out. You will feel like you are suddenly part of nature:
A summer memory? Remember the first time the bees arrived at Four Acre Farm on the night of the Strawberry Moon?
An evocative tune can always do the trick. This one is lifted from the epic musical odyssey called Old Rockers:
And, finally, a flavor of summer. A sizzling fried clam … maple creemee … burnt marshmallow?
I have to go with oyster on the half shell, but not the way this guy does it:
