Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: summer

While checking the high water in the river at the edge of my property, I stopped to smell the flowers.

While checking the high water in the river at the edge of my property, I stopped to smell the flowers.

While checking the high water in the river at the edge of my property, I stopped to smell the flowers.

While checking the high water in the river at the edge of my property, I stopped to smell the flowers.

While checking the high water in the river at the edge of my property, I stopped to smell the flowers.

Meanwhile back during the summer....

Last week we went to the 'Christmas in July' event in North Pole, Alaska (right next to Santa Clause's House). Normally here, ice carving is done in February or early March, when the temperature is a comfortable minus forty degrees or so...

Our summers, here in the interior of Alaska, are quite short, but intense. With 24 hours of daylight anything and everything that can burst in to bloom does! This is firewood that I cut last year, not this year, and stacked to dry. As you can see, even after being cut down, cut to firewood length, stacked and stored through the winter, some of the logs shoot out new branches and leaves!

Not much snow left!

The neighbor stopped by the house for a visit, with her twins yesterday.

Neocolor II crayons on colored stock, 12 by 12 inches.

Speaking of 24 hour daylight, I took this after 9 p.m. last night. The sun was still high enough in the sky to shine through the trees to the north west on to the cottonwoods behind the lilacs.

Sorry, when the boat was on the water I was on the boat, so I've no pictures of her from the shore yet. Generally I'm quite pleased with the way she sails but on this first test on the water, I did find she needs more rudder. Sooo a little more work in the shop.

My 24 hour sundial, that I built last year, says it's 9:40 on the longest day of the year (tomorrow the official summer solstice, is actually 6 seconds shorter!). If the weather cooperates and I remember, I'll see how close I can come to reading midnight on it before the sun gets lost behind the trees.