© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Text:   and just like that there's the school bus ...August   ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.Text:a colorful thought: blue is a devoted handmaiden to sadness give her a summer sky a blooming hydrangea and she may look for a new job ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text:a few roses from the supermarket ...rain continues ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Text:nary a ripple... too hot even for fish to jump ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text:vacation at the bungalow we played card games with stale chips as chips most days, though, were spent with noses pressed against cold glass ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text:the friend not made today ...summer rain ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text:two huge thunderclaps the next morning wondering if it was a dream ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text: We Americanshave no needof pyrotechnicsto make a bang. The implosion ofour democracy isa spectacle visibleto all the world ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Text:third day near 100 all rational thoughts sweated away ..read more

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.  Image: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705 Text: Produce Section Oh, the urge to stop and smell a peach (and give it a squeeze). You've been disappointed in Junes past, so you settle for one more pint of strawberries. August you'll be tired of ..read more