Three Things: Summer Adieu Edition

One week remaining until the official close of summer. Here’s hoping your summer season was appropriately sun-filled, and that your final week will end with proper celebration. I’ll not wax on, but instead leave you with three summery things as fond farewell, and (why not?) a bit of Shakespeare for good measure (The Merchant of Venice, II.vii):

Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
To take a tedious leave […]

Zinaida Serebriakova, Bathers, 1927.

Mike Sinclair, Midway, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, Mississippi. Photograph. www.mikesinclair.com

P.S. Krøyer, Sankthansblus på Skagen strand (Midsummer’s Eve bonfire on Skagen’s beach), 1906. Oil on canvas. Skagen Museum, Denmark.

P.S. In the hope that no one will be on a computer anyway, and instead be frolicking outside or tending the grill, Three Things will not appear next week, returning the Monday following Labor Day.