This is an image from the 4th of July, 2006. I have lots of ripe blueberries outside waiting to be free of their branches … but it’s sooo hot here. I just want to sit in my air-conditioned house and drink iced tea.

Today’s summer rerun comes from a July 2007 entry, after we returned from our trip to Great Britain.

It’s entitled The Passing Poetry of Place Names:


Through England -

Seething
Spixworth
Blickling
Beccles

Creake South
Crimplesham
Pinchbeck
Bicker

Icklingham
Ugthorpe
Foggathorpe
Grinkle

Shiney Row
Spennymoor
Amble
Flodden


And into Scotland -

Coldstream
Caddonfoot
Peebles
Penicuik

Firth of Forth
Sheriffmuir
Bonnybridge
Beecraigs

Little Glenshee
Killiecrankie
Dalnaspidal
Dalwhinnie

Strathmashie
Loch Lochy
Dingwall
Dunmaglass