{"id":8514,"date":"2022-07-01T01:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2022-07-01T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:26:48","slug":"a-woodland-stroll-or-your-july-book-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/a-woodland-stroll-or-your-july-book-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woodland Stroll, or Your July Book of Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to July. Here is your Convivio Book of Days Calendar for July<\/strong><\/a>. It is, as usual, a printable PDF and a fine companion to this blog. Cover star this month: a mid- to late-19th century oil painting called “Summer Day in S\u00e6by Skov with Three Young Ladies Strolling.” It’s a lovely painting with a long title by Danish artist Carl Frederik Aagaard. The trees remind me of woodland strolls in North Carolina and Maine, where the trees are so much different than they are here in Florida.<\/p>\n

It is the month of national holidays in Canada and France and here in the US, and of many saints’ days \u2013\u2013 Swithin, James, Ann, and Martha, to name a few \u2013\u2013 and of the Japanese star festival known as Tanabata. In two days’ time, the Dog Days of Summer will begin, as Sirius begins rising with the sun… and there they will remain with us through the 11th of August. And even in the midst of those often hottest days of summer, the last night of July will bring the Eve of Lammas, the old but little known cross quarter day that reminds us of summer’s fleeting nature, for nothing ever stays the same in the constantly shifting wheel of the year. I’ll visit you as often as I can through this coming month, sharing stories for these days.<\/p>\n

SUMMER HIGH FIVE SALE<\/strong>
\nAt the online shop<\/strong><\/a>, you\u2019ll find my mom Millie as the cover star for the current\u00a0HIGH FIVE\u00a0SALE<\/strong><\/a>: Use discount code HIGH5<\/strong> at checkout for $5 off your purchase of $35 or more. That\u2019s on everything in the shop: our own letterpress printed books and broadsides, genuine Shaker herbs and teas, all of our handmade artisan goods for all the seasons. Plus free domestic shipping when you reach $60.\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to shop, and thank you for your support!<\/p>\n

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM<\/strong>
\nIt’s not too late to enjoy Shakespeare’s midsummer play (Seth and I are going to sit down and watch the 1999 film version tonight). A week ago, for Midsummer Night, I read an adaptation of \u00a0\u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/strong><\/a>\u201d for a new video series from the Jaffe Center for Book Arts called Stay Awake Bedtime Stories<\/strong><\/a>. I had fun reading the story and you may find it fun to watch. I think it’s about 20 minutes long. Please enjoy it by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image: “Summer Day in S\u00e6by Skov with Three Young Ladies Strolling” by Carl Frederik Aagaard. Oil on canvas, circa mid- to late-1800s<\/em> [Public domain via Wikimedia Commons<\/em>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to July. Here is your Convivio Book of Days Calendar for July. It is, as usual, a printable PDF and a fine companion to this blog. Cover star this month: a mid- to late-19th century oil painting called “Summer Day in S\u00e6by Skov with Three Young Ladies Strolling.” It’s a lovely painting with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8519,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}