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In This Dream August Air

August
(excerpt)
W. Wilfred Campbell
1899

In this dream August air, whose ripened leaf,
Pausing before it puts death’s glories on,
Deepens its green, and the half-garnered sheaf
Gladdens the haze-filled sunlight, love hath gone
Beyond the material, trembling like a star,
To those sure heights where all thought’s glories are.

And Thought, that is the greatness of this earth,
And man’s most inmost being, soars and soars,
Beyond the eye’s horizon’s outmost girth,
Garners all beauty, on all mystery pores:
Like some ethereal fountain in its flow,
Finds heavens where the senses may not go.


Living Jazz (1967)
- "Summer Samba"
(Valle)

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O Tenderly the Haughty Day

July

"O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire."
—Emerson

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21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Denis Solee, tenor sax (2005)
"Summer Wind" 4:51
(Henry Mayer)

~*~

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21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Stephen Hough, classical piano (1999)
"Weep You No More" 1:53
(Roger Quilter)



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Dorothy Fields Birthday Anniversary

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15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Janet Seidel, vocal jazz (2009)
"The Way You Look Tonight" 5:21
(Kern and Fields)

~*~

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15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Cheryl Bentyne, vocal jazz (2005)
"I Won't Dance" 3:56
(Kern and Fields)


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A Travel Journey Entry, 14 June 2017

Day 07.3 - Cherokee
14 June 2017

We are blessed over the last dozen years with many a summer travel mainly to different regions of North America. Much of our travels were curtailed by time and subsequent venues. Invariably in the course of every vacation, we were overwhelmed by the four Ws (who, what, when, and why) at the places visited. Nevertheless, in our mostly "see America first" journeys, we've learned and gleaned from the tapestry of our country's makeup. Scenery and landscape were always present in places we visited, though in varying proportions.

The pastoral beauty of the hazy Appalachian hills, interlaced with waterfalls and rivers, and further accented by congregations of fauna and flora. It is a region of unsurpassed beauty. And yet, all were merely scenic props. They awaited man's intrusion or discovery to give the region permanence and purpose; to give it a fuller and magnified landscape later preserved for posterity now known as the Blue Ridges and Smoky Mountains.

The Cumberland Gap and its environs were once serene and undisturbed wilderness, saved as a trace for the woodland buffaloes. Since it became a designated path blazed by Daniel Boone, as noted by Turner on the 12 June journal entry of "Cumberland Gap", "...the procession of civilization marching single file...the Indian...the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by." Man has left a historic imprint on the Gap since the 1750s. Today, it still serves as a transit point westward. A century later at a place called Gettysburg, a stretch of farmland now preserved as a "hollow" and "consecrated" ground. As a timeless memorial imprinted on this field of blood, President Lincoln dedication this parcel of land to all the "brave men, living and dead." The scenery indigenous to both landmarks had served to establish, fortify, settle, and stir one's imagination to the historic importance, respectively, of these two landscape examples.

Cheorkee, NC, is a small foothill town at the southern edge of the Great Smoky Mountain NP. Located within a designated federal trust, the town also serves as the headquarter of the tribal community. When we arrived at Cherokee this morning, a rather dark chapter of our republic's history peeled back and opened to us. Surely, in the palimpsest of our nation's history, the Cherokee landscape had been paved with tears, toils, tragedies, as well as triumphs.

Ready for Summer Vacation

Leaving for the Great Smoky Mountain states on Thursday, 8 June. I should be back on 18 June.

"My heart thrills like the wilding sap to flowers,
And leaps as a swoln brook in summer rain
Past meadows green to the great sea untold.
O month divine, all fresh with falling showers,
Waft, waft from open heaven thy balm for pain,
Life and sweet Earth are young, God grows not old!"

Theodore H. Rand, 1897

Barlow and Rice

Tab 1 Feature:

6 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Emile-Claire Barlow
Canadian jazz singer
Born: 6 June 1976

Emilie-Claire Barlow, vocal (2007)
"Les Yeux Ouverts" 4:44
(W. Schwandt et al.)

~*~

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8 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Tony Rice
American acoustic guitarist
Blugrass and Country
Born: 8 June 1951

Tony Rice, vocal and guitar (1996)
"Fine as Fine Can Be"
(G. Lightfoot)



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In These Sweet June Days

Love and June
Percy Ainsworth
1910

There lives a glory in these sweet June days
Such as I found not in the years gone by,
A kindlier meaning in the unclouded sky,
A tenderer whisper in the woodland ways;
And I have understanding of the lays,
The birds are singing, forasmuch as I
Have learned how love avails to satisfy
A man’s whole heart, and fills his lips with praise.
The morning air is laden with the scent
Of roses; and within my garden grows
A rosebud that shall some day be a rose,
Whose bloom and perfume never shall be spent—
The flower of love: and he who hath it knows
The endless summer of complete content.

2017 iOS Custom Summer Wallpapers

These wallpapers are created on the iPhone 6s by using Apple iOS logical resolutions associated for the iPhone models specified for iPhones 6 and 7 variants. Each wallpaper can be pinched in-or-out, move and scale (i.e. height and width) to suit the user's display preference for the iPhone model.

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iPhones 6 and 7 Variants

Hail, Dearest Few!

Memorial Day
Louise Imogen Guiney
1909

O day of roses and regret,
Kissing the old graves of our own!
Not to the slain love's lovely debt
Alone.

But jealous hearts that live and ache,
Remember; and while drums are mute,
Beneath your banners' bright outbreak,
Salute:

And say for us to lessening ranks
That keep the memory and the pride,
On whose thinned hair our tears and thanks
Abide,

Who from their saved Republic pass,
Glad with the Prince of Peace to dwell:
Hail, dearest few! and soon, alas,
Farewell.