Particularly Rapid Unintelligible Patter

Midnight sun in northern Sweden

Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak (Polish b.1968), Before the Storm, 2025, Oil on canvas

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (details) by John Simmons, 1873.

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐤 new work, July 2025 watercolour

Skumring, 1918 by Harald Slott-Møller (Danish, 1864–1937)

We report: it got very windy during the afternoon, sudden gusts that had us looking up every few minutes. The sound of the rush of air in the dry brush is sharp, and loud, arresting in the way things out of our control can be. We still hear it as we are trying to fall asleep.

Gustav Marx - "Party on a boat in the Garden" (1883)

'summer tumbling blocks' from 'kaffe's quilt romance,' kaffe fassett, pub. 2009.

Early July landscape

the alien sitting in the back left corner: [draws stylized alien compound eyes]

One more mermaid, washing her painful legs (Is it in the original version that each step on the ground was cutting pain for her? Well, it was in the version I’ve read as a child )

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July Morning Joys by Dmitry Alekseev

We report: threads of light are trailing after the sunset, and the dry air is becoming more breathable. It has felt like noon all day, the intensity of the sun, the narrow, sharp shadows. Our expert, remarkably, manages to feel a little cold when a light breeze shakes the wheat.

In Dutch this step is called repelen. In Dutch, Rumpelstiltskin is called repelsteeltje (ripple stem). So now I'm wondering if the name of the central character in the flax centred story is related to flax production.