Summer Heat

         Here are a few block prints that capture today’s summer heat.  These are linoleum block prints painted with watercolor, by Leslie Evans, and the acrostics within them are by Steven Schnur.  All the yellows and warm greens really give a sense of sunny days and sultry evenings, and from the comfort of my relatively cool desk, I can appreciate the lush garden outside.  This year  I’m not growing zucchini and I don’t even like eggplant, but I do like this print of veggies growing in the sun-warmed soil.  (My own garden is not nearly so inspiring - this morning I discovered that almost all of my tomatoes and blueberries have disappeared before they had even begun to ripen.  That’s just not fair!)

        On the other hand, my shasta daisies do look just like this second piece, complete with the occasional dragonfly, and they are indeed delightfully cheerful, just like little sunshines.

        This evening I’ll be sitting outdoors and it will be very hot indeed, but the glow and flash will be provided not by fireflies or (hopefully) lightning, but by the annual fireworks display.

        I’ve featured a few more lino prints by Leslie Evans before, in posts Young Youth Year and Melting Snow.

        If you have a garden or some pots, how are they growing?  And what summer traditions do you treasure?

[Pictures: Zenith, hand-colored linoleum block print by Leslie Evans from SPRING: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur, 1999;

Daisy and Night, hand-colored linoleum block prints by Evans from SUMMER: An Alphabet Acrostic by Schnur, 2001.]