I’m talking about July. Around my house, July is not a favorite. July starts out with the 4th of July holiday. The Independence day part of that is fine. I love the USA! The fireworks part we do not love so much. I love the pretty stuff. It is the noisy stuff… You can probably imagine how Karl feels about that.

And it gets hot…ok, relatively, but to us it is hot.

I turn into a bit of a curmudgeon from now until early August…our Summer – six whole weeks of it. No real excuse for it, just not my favorite time, but I seem to do better acknowledging it and laughing about it. In years past I did things like put houses up for sale, buy motorhomes – life altering kinds of things. Fortunately, this year the work schedule is very busy so I can stay in my cool little house and work away. Karl comes in about 10 in the morning and does not venture out again until 6 or 7 in the evening – after this first week of noise when we don’t go out until 1 or 2 in the morning…

Bob sprawls on the front porch like he’s melting…I think it was 79 when I took this photo, humidity about 19%…honestly, HOT!

My blog posting gets irregular in July. Photography-wise I don’t like the bright summer light excepting early morning. I’m usually not out (actually, not up) late enough to catch evening light. There are moments, of course, and I love the light in the woods through the trees…we’ll see how it goes this year.

July…wake us up when it’s over.