If You Saw a Heat Wave, Would You Wave Back?

"In summer, the song sings itself"  William Carlos Williams
(Flowers by Ka Vang)

"Summer's lease has all too short a date."
-  William Shakespeare  
(Hibiscus at Country Bloomers)

Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin  (Flowers by Natalie)

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat   
(Hydrangea at Morningwood)

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox   (flowers by Yang Vang)

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore    (flowers by Kelly Lor)

Instead of a theme...this week you can win a gift certificate to the market by identifying the author of the title.  First two correct entries win; stop by the Information Tent or send your contact information when you post the answer.

Vendor View

 

Everyone lives by selling something.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 Looking out from Ethel Ann's Southern Style Bakery

The view from RP's Pasta....(the lemon pepper linguine was popular on this day)

The view from Pleasant Springs Orchard

Looking out from Edelweiss

The view from Stella's Bakery

The view from the Information Tent

Looking out from Natalie's

A very good sign to a vendor...empty bins tipped up to dry before the ride home.

Looking out from Bonde Bee

 

Must get to the market earlier next week....

Identify the two vendors across from Stella's...post your answer on our Facebook page and win a market gift certificate!  (Beth, the blueberries are in!  Pick up your gift certificates!)

"The Road is Made by Walking"

Manly feet

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

New feet

"Little feet that do not know
Where the winding roadways go..."  Edgar Guest

Mother Daughter feet

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” - David Bly

 Interesting Feet

"Nation's Supply of Dotted Socks Endangered by Failure to Raise Debt Ceiling."

Restless feet

"A spirit in my feet said go, and I went"

 Wounded feet

"I told the doctor that my foot was broken in two places.  He told me to stop going to those places"
Henny Youngman

Reticent Feet

"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."   Jane Addams, first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Working feet

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. " Samuel Beckett

Patriotic feet
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"  Lily Tomlin

Comfortable feet
"The road goes ever, ever on, down from the door where it began..." Tolkien


Each week there is a theme to the post.  Guess the theme, put it the comments section; stop by the market Information Tent to see if you've won a $5 gift certificate.  Earliest bird wins the prize.  (Note!  This week's theme is not "feet")

First Saturday in July

We just know inside that we're queens. And these are the crowns we wear. (Felecia McMillan)

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality.  Why just be yourself? (Margaret Atwood)

Area Man Never Leaves House Without Putting On Lucky Everything

‘I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it’s a conversation piece.’ - Hedda Hopper 

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground.  Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.  ~Shana Alexander

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.  ~Lionel Kauffman

"Wearing a hat is like having a baby or a puppy; everyone stops to coo and talk about it." 

And all your future lies beneath your hat.
John Oldham

 There's a theme to each week's posting; guess the theme and put it in the comments section.  Then stop by the market Information Tent to see if you've won a $5 gift certificate.