August: Slow Children, a Red Carpet, and a Magic Treehouse

Whenever I see signs like these, I think of Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky (2007 Newbery winner). It's been years since I read the book, but I remember the main character wondering if it was the CHILDREN who were slow. :)

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The children who made this  l-o-o-o-n-g  path clearly had a mission!
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This photo and the one above it were taken 20 days apart, and I can't recall if it was the same street. All I know is that I very much wanted to go up that red carpet!

Maybe kids who make l-o-n-g paths and red carpets grow up to make
dragonflies that dance in the streets.

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A particularly majestic cat...
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...and a somewhat disgruntled penguin. 

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​Mary and Joseph peeking through the leaves.

Holy infant, mother and child...

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A carousel horse gleams in a backyard. Who can say what magical journey it was on?

Bee cheerful. :)

This little dinosaur practically looked ​alive.
​The one in the bottom right corner—​not so much.

A flip-flop planter and a pipe-smoking sea captain. Fun!

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I noticed this tree because it was wrapped in white lights. 

​But it was only when I walked by in the opposite direction that I saw the splendid tree house behind it. (If that isn't a metaphor for life!)

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Sometimes it's merely the angle of the sun that gives us new images to ponder.
​Like this ordinary stucco wall...

...this lacy leaf shadow...

...and this busy bit of sand. How many stories are contained in these tracks?

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Finally, a Little Free Library with some wise words from Dr. Seuss's Lorax:​
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.