SUMMER’S HERE....July 7th

It’s been a challenge to do the JULY pieces.  I closed my eyes to get an idea what to come up with for today.  I had just scene a picture of a beach scene so it helped.  I thought about how sea shells can look like confetti on the sand and that some shells jaggered.  I pictured a lone person strolling picking up shells as she walked along the sands; her mind focus on a happy memory.  I’ve used this theme in other writings.  Like my pieces on rain, the beach stroll is something I keep going back to time and again.  The TUESDAY piece was sort of easy in a way. I wrote this first thing this morning.  It rings true about rain and it’s happening at times.  My neighbor thought he’d do the mowing later in day but as soon as he started rains came.  Thus morning I was up earlier than usual and I hear Sandhill cranes.  My other neighbor’s dog was out and barking at them. I looked out the window as I enjoy watching these birds. After I wrote my daily reflection I thought gee I could use sometime in a poem. 

I’ve done many pieces about these birds and used them in other pieces I’ve written. 

Until tomorrow....today is National Macaroni Day, National Strawberry Sundae Day and Chocolate Day.  Enjoy one of the three food items. 

         

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   July 7th....DAILY REFLECTIONS 

Sandhill Cranes were saying good 

            morning....I heard their trumpeting 

                 as they walk across the street

My neighbor’s dog barks at them....not sure 

       who is louder....I watched as they    

          lumbered on their spindly legs headed    

               for the empty lot

Just another morning in my      

           neighborhood....at least I was awake 

              and not woken by birds and dog 

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                 JULY 7th

               ©  Scottie-ann Murphy

Jaggered seashells are scattered on the 

         white sandy beach like confetti 

Under a clear blue July sky I stroll picking     

          up shells, placing them into a pail                  

Letting my memories surface of happy 

        summer days we spent together 

You holding my hand as we walked the 

       same beach making plans that never 

                   came to be 

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                      TUESDAY

                 © Scottie-ann Murphy

The day begins out sunny BUT it might rain 

           in the afternoon....then again not

Umbrella will be needed if I go to do 

            errands....I should go early in the day 

Every afternoon it seems rain forecasted 

        this time of year....can’t stop it from 

               happening 

Some days it is a light quick shower other 

          times thunderstorms....never know 

               what it will be 

Daily rainfall normal for Florida in summer 

             months....just part of the Florida life

Always occurring during the

            mid-afternoon....occasionally early 

                evening 

 Yesterday’s precipitation waited till early 

        evening....interrupting my neighbor’s 

                  grass cutting 

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