Summer in Venice
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Manuel and the Music of the Mountains (1971)
- Summer in Venice (Ciognini)
"When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it --lie down for an aeon or two. Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew..." ~Rudyard Kipling~
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Summer
Christina Rossetti
Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;
When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side,
And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.
Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewhere.
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Labels: The Seasons, Verses
June 21, 2013 1700 Hours PDT Log Current Temperature and Condition: 91° F | 33° C Clear Astronomy: June 21, 2013 Rise: Set: Actual Time 5:42 AM PDT 8:29 PM PDT Civil Twilight 5:11 AM PDT 9:00 PM PDT Nautical Twilight 4:32 AM PDT 9:39 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight 3:47 AM PDT 10:23 PM PDT Moon 6:46 PM PDT 4:01 AM PDT Length of Visible Light 15h 48m Length of Day 14h 46m Tomorrow will be 0m 3s shorter. Waxing Gibbous, 97% of the Moon is Illuminated.
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Labels: Astronomy, The Seasons
Western - William Johnstone, "The Drifter."
Modern Classic - Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Science Fiction - David Weber, "Mission of Honor."
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1 June 2013, last day of this vacation.
Heritage Hall, the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780
Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780
Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780
Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780
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Panorama (reduced size): Mt. Fairview and Lake Louise, AB
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780
Panorama (reduced size): Emerald Lake, BC
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Emerald Lake Lodge, BC
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780
Kicking Horse River and Natural Bridge, Yoho NP, BC
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780
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The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.