GLIMPSES OF SUMMER

 For a blessed moment or two, I want to abandon my medical woes and think about summer. I can only see glimpses of it through the window - - and tax my imagination as to what it is like.

So, dreamlike images of summer drift through my restless mind. My only solace is creating them in my imagination.

So, I delved into the fantastical (sometimes infuriating) world of AI (artificial intellegence). I know that this rampant technological medium doesn't thrill everyone - - but I enjoy it.

I "created" (an unecessary pompous word) at least fifty  images of summer......

......and I'm inflicting some on you.

Poultry passing time on a lazy afternoon

Sunflowers are never hesitant to grow. Hopefully she's not wearing that outfit on a brutally hot day.

The dog days of summer? Of course it refers to the star Sirius, but I always think of dogs. Hot dogs. The man is drinking iced tea, I suppose.

I initially wanted these children eating ice cream, but I thought cotton candy was more fun. Remember the county fair?

I made at least half a dozen versions of a summer storm. I liked this one the best. Bringing his horse to shelter.

What? Another summer storm? Swimmers, beware!

No thought of swimming - - just gathering shells along a walk on the beach.

Cooling off.

A Mediterranean scene. Perhaps she's enjoying the morning air, before it gets too hot.

I don't think they'll eat it, but curiosity always gets the cat.

August heat.

This is my favorite picture. I used to frequently walk through old cemeteries when I lived in the Missouri Ozarks. Stifling, humid summer afternoons, when sudden thunderstorms rendered the day to be almost surrealistic.

Peace and tranquility - - perhaps thinking of sailing into the sunset.....

The peach pickers. A rather strange summer scene, perhaps Renaissance inspired. The fruit doesn't look like peaches......but who knows?

A persistent group of crows in a cornfield.

Surf's up!

Jon 🩵  hopelessly imaginative