WORSHIP

 Like the lilies of the field

Saturday

I toiled not.

 However, I did virtually attend the many rallies and protests here on my laptop, while sipping homemade lemonade in the adequate cool of my third floor walk up, thanks to my new Air Conditioner, fully aware and grateful for my good fortune and privilege of the moment:

Farewell June.
 ~*~

Sunday

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Hello July

Hope the electrical grid holds up through this heat wave.
Hope the powers that be have a spontaneous awakening.
Hope the dear children survive and are freed to heal.
Hope the parents prevail and find sanctuary.

~*~ 

STORMS

Storm Watch
Teddy sat by the front window with his flashlight all night

 It came and went with lightning and thunder

Then a new day dawned

HOT

 Looking up at Iron work on top of buildings
Victorian decor once dominated Manhattan

DNC on TV
Bill For Hillary
He's a charmer all right, and still a great speaker.
Nice to see intelligent glitz again. You may be surprised, even outraged, but I've forgiven him his marital missteps. Policy, performance and capacity to survive are what matters.

The alternative is too terrible.

I just don't think the time is right for a third party play.

I still love Bernie and that's not gonna' change.
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COO and CHORTLE

Pigeons on the windowsill:

"Wake up-Wake up"

"Not yet-Not yet"

 "It's already too bright out there."

 ~*~

We're having a heat wave.
Last night my neighbor and I walked to the river searching for a breeze we couldn't find,

yet the flowers didn't seem to mind.

~*~

https://youtu.be/sL_K5Z1DeCc

Nap Time

JULY WINDS DOWN TO A BLUE MOON

Gifts of embroidery

 from Julio's mom

 The neglected church garden still blooming Friday the 25th

 sweet

 Saturday

Once electrical problems were repaired

I put the kitchen in order

 Construction in the neighborhood

 Sunday

Temperatures soar into the nineties

 He had the sweetest voice

Lexington Avenue #6 at 23rd Street

 Changed at grand central and arrived

at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park

 for free Judy Collins concert

 Someone filmed the last bit (not me) a little talk and sing along 

"Amazing Grace"

(rough footage but her voice is solid)

https://youtu.be/tcYd6f32cgc

Monday

The outside color changed suddenly

Storm weather, but no rain, only flies

 This is my fly catcher

 Tuesday in the neighborhood

(collapsed)

 Someone turned the stone Francis

dragged it off it's central place

(unsuccessful thieves)

 Weed trees growing in three street containers

 Wednesday

Temperature hits high nineties-over 100 with heat index

"Every law not based on Wisdom is a menace to the State"

 "We must not use force unless just laws are defied"

 My friend Michael

 Appellate division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Design by James Brown Lord 1896

 Madison Square Park

Free Concert

 Happy despite the heat index

 With her daughter and grandchild

 He's proud of his plane

Energetic dance move

 The judge for the dance contest was the original 'cowboy'

from

The Village People

 barefoot dancing despite the heat

 The dance-off on stage

 One winner is picked

 by a process of elimination

Thursday I stayed home with air conditioning

Tonight is a blue moon Astronomically speaking
https://youtu.be/XyBp-EYrwTA

One more day to August

~*~