{Rowntree's Fruit Gums advertisement ~ totallymystified}
{Bliss ~ riekhavoc}
{Cadillac 1953 Vintage Automobile Car Advertisement ~ Christian Montone}
{Chivers Jellies advertisement ~ totallymystified}
{Yellow ribbon ~ Katarina 2353}
{Florida Bathing Beauties Postcard ~ StevenM_61}
{Yellow Balloons ~ frank3.0}
{1950s riot of flowers print dress ~ Small Earth Vintage}
{French's Canary & Parakeet Food Ad, 1954 ~ alsis35}
{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on its title to be taken to its respective Flickr page.}
Late June, ahhh, how I absolutely adore this time of the year. In my mind, I'm whipped back to the atmosphere that permeated this part of the month as a youngster, when school was just on the cusp of wrapping up, the local lakes were starting to become warm enough to swim in again, and "birthday season" (a sixteen day stretch between June 24th and July 10th when both mine and my little brother's birthday's fall) was in high gear.
These days are bathed in sunshine so gorgeous it deserves to be called opulent, the start of sauna warm nights full of diamond laced skies, lemonade by the gallon full, Motown music (my parents always played it during the summer when I was child and I've carried on the tradition ever since), gauzy sundresses, and the kind of languid early summer afternoons you wish with all your might could last until the very last moment of time.
More often than not, it is the tail end of June and the start of July that stand as my favourite days of summer, and I suspect this year will be just the same. Each moment of this season has its own special brand of sizzling magic, but there's just something about the brand new days of summer that make me love it with an unending passion.
I'm eager for summer - the start, middle and end one and all - and the sun drenched memories that I know lay ahead. Picnics aplenty, fantastically juicy peaches, golden sands so warm they rival burning coals, Canada Day fireworks, and as many yard sales as I can possibly get to.
This is a season of abundance and pleasure, which holds timeless favourites and oodles of new discoveries in its folds, and that promises to delight, entertain and instill joy in one's soul from the very first to the very last moment.
