LATE AUGUST ...

"August rain: the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time..." -Sylvia Plath

"August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun..." -Mary Oliver

"The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled..." -Sue Monk Kidd

"Those late August mornings smelt of autumns from day-break, 

...till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed cool sea breezes...

...Garden spiders retired in the evenings to the shed,

...and there wisely took up their abode on the ceiling." -Colette

"August was nearly over. The month of apples and falling stars..." -Victor Nekrasov

"August is the last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades..."-Rasmenia Massoud

"August breeze...perched on the flame tree..." Meeta Ahluwalia

"August was smoking hot, then September walked in

... in cool as a cucumber, and made her presence felt."

                                                                                -Charmaine J. Forde

Photographs 2026 Mt. Washington, from Campbell River, BC.

 

AUGUST DAYS...

AUGUST by Jean Blewett (1862-1934) Canadian writer and poet. Her first novel was  "Out of the Depths" . She won 600$ in 1896 from the Chicago Times Herald for her poem "Spring"

God in his own right hand

doth take each day

Each sun-filled day

Each rare and radiant night,

And drop it softly....

On the earth

and say:

"Touch earth with Heaven's own beauty and delight..."

Earth to the 20th Century....

"You cannot take from out my heart the growing, The green sweet growing,

and vivid thrill. You should be old. 

Not glowing with youth and all youth's strength and beauty still"

                          - Jean Blewett

Photographs 2026

 

DON'T FEAR the FIRE...

"This is now. Now is all there is. Don't wait for then, strike the spark light the fire..." - Rumi

"...a forest fire. You can see it, taste it from a mile away..." 

                                                                                                                       -Denis Waitley

"The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet..." -Thomas Merton

 "I arise today through the strength of Heaven, light of the Sun, brilliance of the Moon...

Splendor of Fire, speed of lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea,

stability of Earth, firmness of Rock..." -St Patrick

"Sunrise. What is the name of the deep breath I would take for all of us? It is happiness. It is another one of the ways to enter fire..." -Mary Oliver

"....and give relief to those of you who are troubled. It is revealed from heaven in blazing fire..." -2 Thessalonians 1:7

"Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold..." -Matshona Dhliwayo

"You, darkness, of whom I am born...I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illuminates...."- Rainer Marie Rilke

"Words are only painted fire...a look is the fire itself..." -Mark Twain

"If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path..." -Hazrat Inayat Khan

"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school..."

                                                                                                                          - Margaret Atwood

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire..." -Susanna Catherina Langer

"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this..." -Susan Branch

"Summer night....even the stars are whispering to each other..." -Kobayahi Issa

"Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul..." -Paulo Cohelo

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.