SUMMER AFTERNOON, SUMMER AFTERNOON

"SUMMER AFTERNOON AT

SKAGEN BEACH"

Peder Severin Kroyer

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I bid rather a sad farewell to June and to Fairy Month by drawing the name for the winner of my Fairy Day Giveaway. The winner is Mari-Nanci of "smilnsigh". Congratulations, Mari-Nanci, and may you enjoy Cicely Mary Barker's paintings in "Return to Fairyopolis" for many a day.

When I went over to Mari-Nanci's post to tell her about her win, I realized that needn't be so sad - I have a fabulous July ahead of me. Her post today is a plethora, a panoply, a paean to the wonderful things we experience in July. From fireflies and fireworks, straw hats and strawberries, flag-waving parades and front-porch swings, she names dozens of simple-to-sumptuous delights to be found in the seventh month of the year.

Reading her post, I was reminded of the Henry James quote:

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON,

SUMMER AFTERNOON,

THE TWO MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS

IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"

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I decided to check out the Internet for summer paintings, and within a couple of minutes I had found dozens either called "Summer Afternoon" or which had "Summer Afternoon" in the title.

Here are seven of them, including my favorite, "Summer Afternoon at Skagen Beach." I have note cards of this painting, and I also have a print of it.

After you peruse my luscious summer afternoon paintings, please go to Mari-Nanci's post and read her luscious descriptions of July delights: http://www.smilnsigh.blogspot.com/.

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON"

George Konis

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON"

George F. Schultz

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON"

Mary Travers

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON"

Frank Weston Benson

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON"

Barbara Loftin

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"SUMMER AFTERNOON, BIARRITZ"

Jose Villegas Cordero