For me, the "dog days of summer" don't start until after the Magnolias have blossomed. The Golden Retriever below disagrees as I snapped this photo in Charleston, SC before they had bloomed.
I know not everyone that participates here at "The Garden" is experiencing summer, but this is what the theme is about today.
The challenge is to write "summer" into your poems. I want it to DRIP with the season!
I have taken these images with my iPhone and would be thrilled if they inspire a response.
The image above is of Lake Walloon, the very one Hemingway enjoyed and wrote about. HERE is a link to an interesting article if you would like to know more.
I would love a new poem, but will also accept an older, updated (reworked) poem. You know the drill. Post your specific post to the Linky below. I look forward to your artistic interpretations! And as always, feel free to use more than one photo and if you don't get a poem done today, coming to the table late is "OK". Don't forget we have "Open Link Monday" as well.
Wow! all the photographs are wonderful and my muse is Magnolia:) Thanks
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos! It's hard to believe you took them with an iPhone. My iPhone takes lousy photos. Maybe I need to upgrade. lol
ReplyDeleteThanks for the photographs and great prompt.
ReplyDeleteI'm surviving my first summer in Houston. But from the news back home in the northeast and from past experience back there, I'm not feeling this to be all that much hell as they say.
Inspired... Thanks for the prompt, MArgaret!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diane & Vandana. I use a few photo apps (BeFunky Pro & Instagram to name a few) as well as a light touch of Photoshop to play with my images. So it isn't all me.
ReplyDeleteI did add a photo of our horse Oberon - somehow it didn't load in my original posting. Can't have a prompt without a horse if I can help it ;)
As in Walden we seem always surprised by the weather... or how close we insects depend on a specific plant or tree... why? I have stayed inside cling to the ice wind in summer or the little star of a pot belly stove in winter...attached to the world have never felt more isolated in the quietness. Now I find myself longing to go back to places I have been...yeah, Tom Wolfe and all that or Gibran in New York city..."You can't go home again." Or am I saving others from my stress moods when I am the weather?
ReplyDeleteThese pictures are so gorgeous, Margaret. You are incredibly talented.
ReplyDeleteMargaret! Gorgeous shots. I want to know where you took the pelican photo and if it is white or brown? Please let me know! Brown Pelican is my totem, a natural wonder I have spent time with mainly in Virginia Beach and near Veracruz, Mexico.
ReplyDeleteCharleston, SC. Brown, I'm pretty sure
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I love your photos-I am now singing, Summertime and the livin' is eeeeeasy ;D
ReplyDeleteThank you Margaret!
These pictures are amazing, Margaret. We are spoiled for choice. You have such a gift to compose pictures with a poet's eye. Many thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour photography always is cause for a sigh here--love your compositions,and especially the statue and the bareback rider--just gorgeous. I am not much in a writing mode because of the HEAT--ugh--but if anything occurs, will be back.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry mine is not dripping with Summer, Margaret but I thank you for the push I needed to write a poem this week.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a Terza Rima Sonnet yesterday, enjoyed the form so much that I attempted it again today for your prompt, Margaret. Love your photos as always.
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures dear ~
ReplyDeleteAm enjoying the summer from BC ~
Happy weekend to all ~
Beautiful photographs Margaret. Thanks for sharing them to give us inspiration!
ReplyDeleteMine went in a different direction! I think I will try again :D
ReplyDeleteLovely challenge~
Thank you! I'll be back to read.
ReplyDeleteThanks for inspiration! Many thoughts because of multiple photos, indeed feel spoiled...:)
ReplyDeleteThank you all for participating! I have read half of the poems and summer is surely depicted quite well! I have been out the door since 7 am and am back for a moment and out the door again. I will finish reading the poems later this evening (and any new ones that arrive) Thank you!
ReplyDeleteMargaret,
ReplyDeleteYour photos were WAY too gorgeous for the mental image I have about summer these days! The prompt did inspire a poem, however!
Oops....I posted in the wrong place. I'm going to try and remove it. Sorry Margaret.
ReplyDeleteI love your photos Margaret!
ReplyDeletedouble-posting this one, hope that's not too obnoxious... i'm late to the game, Maragaret, but i love your photos. i usually find photo prompts difficult (even when i can really appreciate the photos, like yours) and was struggling to write something for that photo of the adirondack chairs. then Kerry's prompt got me going. :) thanks again! wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, everyone. I enjoyed them all.
ReplyDeleteYep, I do know the drill .. couldn't resist adding my bit of Dog Days Summertime complainin' to Margaret's challenge. Written last week for Poetry Jam.
ReplyDeleteI love your images, Margaret!! Thank you for the challenges!
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