The temperature here in South Texas has been summer for some time. This evening we will celebrate the Summer Solstice by opening a bottle of Texas Viognier 2011 from Pedernales Cellars and lighting a candle. This piece of Talavera from Mexico hangs near our front door. Her name is Isabella.
Cheers to life and sunlight! It is good to be back.
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THE COASTAL CRONE 
Oh the lovely Isabella, greats us with her smiling face and warms us with her radiance!
Summer Solstice
Tis the changing of the seasons
where the midnight sun meets the day,
and time stands still, eerily unmoving
summer and winter at same.
Oh, earthy eccentricity
in heavens, a touch of divine
the lofty stars get mingled in confusion,
Cancer and Capricorn dance
Goddess of spring, maidens of earth,
Dakshinayana offerings,
in placid twilight, the ghost sun lingers
A god’s fleeting shadow veiled.
Mylah Ferrer
I have missed you so my dearest Crone………so lovely to have you back and on the feast day of the ancients! We shall enjoy so enjoy your company. XXOO Tin Man
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I am glad that you like the lovely Isabella. Thank you for the very appropriate poem – “lofty stars get mingled…god’s fleeting shadow veiled.” I like the mystery of the ancient celebrations of life. Thank you for your encouragement to return. I had not planned this post until yesterday and I wanted something positive – none of that Stone Oak stuff! Have a good weekend, Tin Man!
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I love your post!
Looking forward to our celebration this afternoon.
Love You Madly!
Bill
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Thank you!
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Good to have you back!
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Thank you! I have missed your humor and insight.
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What a gorgeous wall hanging! We are welcoming sunshine here too, after a chilly, very wet spring. Glad you’re back along with the sun. 🙂
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Thank you! It reminds me to smile. Wish we had had a wet spring and it looks like a long hot summer unless we get a tropical storm or hurricane. Have a good weekend.
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Welcome Back! 🙂
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Thank you! I have not posted anything since March.
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So appropriate for such a lovely day….Have a great celebration tonight with Bill and welcome back have missed your blogs…Love ya Anita
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Thank you, Anita! Good to hear from you too. Will have to check you out on FB as I haven’t been on there much either. But I am getting back to normal.
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It’s good to see you, Jo Nell! I haven’t posted much either. I checked on FB and your blog to be sure I wasn’t missing you, but no Jo Nell. Yes, I’m glad to see you and the lovely Isabella! 🙂
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Thank you, George! I have missed my blogger & FB friends. I thought you would like Isabella and her face. Stay cool this summer. The heat can make me very lazy.
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Good to hear from you! I have a few metal suns in my yard for decoration – I liked your Isabella.
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I have more suns outside too. I will be visiting your neighborhood soon as I catch up on my reading. Thanks for stopping by to comment!
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Viognier!! Of course! We also opened a bottle on this important day – Les Vignes de Bila-Haut – a charming little French wine – and sat outside waiting for the twilight and the end of day. I adore, adore, adore Isabela Jo Nell. XX Virginia
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Isabella greets my guests as your Buddha goes. Your charming little French wine sounds more romantic than our Texas Viognier but it was quite good. Aren’t we lucky ladies to have our significant other to share our lives and the end of the day? Have a beautiful summer! OOXX
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My dear dear Jo Nell. Lar is the light of my life – the one that completes me. After all these years together I still say ” I don’t love you. I am in love with you!! I’m a hopeless romantic. Many, many good wishes for a splendid summer for you and the light of your life. I have written “Tin Man” – that if I could have a wish-dream fulfilled – it would that at some time all of us could share a time together. XX Virginia
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Welcome back. I don’t envy your Texas summer. I moved away to the mountains to escape the unbearable South MS heat and humidity. I’ll take my summers with tray of ice and a tall White Georgia Pine for shade!! Have a great summer.
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Thank you! The mountains would be wonderful but I guess this is where I have been planted for now. Enjoy your pines for shade. Thanks for stopping by.
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Welcome back! Isabella is awesome and absolutely the perfect illustration for a post on the summer soltice.
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Thank you, Sheryl!
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Hello, nice to meet you. I love how you are welcoming in summer….with your Texas Viognier☺
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Thank you! A little wine helps the summer heat!
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Happy Solstice and Summer – shine on….
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Shine on indeed! Yes, that is what I intend to do as long as I have light.
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Nice to see your return. Our North Texas summer has barely started with heat starting to climb but the rain storms continually cooling things off.
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Rain storms are welcome in summer! Thank you, Val. I am doing much better and grateful for every day.
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Well it’s mid winter here and we have just had the winter solstice. Celebrated indoors with roaring fire and good friends. BTW I love Isabella.
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What a wonderful way to celebrate the winter solstice! I must visit your blog soon to see what is going on in your part of the world. I have missed your positive attitude. I am trying to decided what to do with the rest of MY life!
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Isabella is filled with colour and radiance – a reminder to shine!
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Yes, she is a reminder to shine and smile!
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What a beautiful way to inaugurate the season! As we enjoy visits from our children and grandchldren (some of whom will be here for at least half of the summer), we hope for many new and wonderful beginnings for all of us. Thank you for liking my post.
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Have a wonderful summer adventures with your family! Thanks for taking time to comment.
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Just nice to start somewhere and give it up to the Texas heat. We did the same and toasted to the new summer adventures while our neighbors sang vodka-laced Russian folk-songs with their friends in the back yard across the way, whatever those summer ventures may be… Happy summer Crone.
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We might as well accept the Texas heat. How unusual to hear vodka-laced Russian folk songs in Texas! It must have been a nice change from perhaps country and western songs. Cheers to whatever summer ventures may come our way! Stay cool!
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This sounds like a lovely tradition. Isabella has a very welcoming face. 🙂
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Thank you!
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Thank you for visiting my blog today. I appreciate the time you took to stop by. May your day be filled with joy and peace.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Thanks for your visit. I always enjoy your.
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