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Gilliatt Gurgle
06-29-2013, 07:50 AM
Heading home from work yesterday, I had ole "Satchmo" and Bing cranked up singing Gone Fishin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTZvve2zbE

As I pulled into the drive and the song came to its end, I was reminded of a favorite poem by James Whitcomb Riley; Down Around the River. I also realized June is about to wrap up. The poem opens with "Noon time and June time..."
So, I figured I'll share the poem to close out June via photographs from my 1913 copy of his selected works.
How about that, June time 1913.
From 100 year old pages...


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/IMGP3219_zps67a1a0f3.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/user/tabuka1/media/Books/IMGP3219_zps67a1a0f3.jpg.html)


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/IMGP3218_zps50a74ad7.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/user/tabuka1/media/Books/IMGP3218_zps50a74ad7.jpg.html)

cacian
06-29-2013, 03:44 PM
nice one Gilliatt !!! :nod:
I am liking these lovely selections of trees mentioning:

''of the sycamores, jack-oaks, and swamp ash and ellum-
Idies all so jumbled, you kin hardly tell'em !''