beds for cantaleupe

"Work’d-up the 20 loads of dung (brought in on the 14th) into a Cantaleupe-bed for the nine large lights." Gilbert White as presented by Verlyn Klinkenborg in The Rural Life

back in the summer

between

barely a warm day

"and two six-pound flat-irons weigh more than one tailor's goose." William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

the sweetness of our lives

our winter view

cold is our day