This has been a very strange summer, and all of a sudden I’m realizing that it’s mid-July and it’s halfway over. Montana summers don’t really follow the June-July-August model, to be fair, and I’m sure we’ll have some lovely, warm September days.
Even so, it’s mid-July. I think I’ve eaten a total of two meals involving the barbecue. And now we’re going through this weird afternoon/evening thunderstorm phase that is even further preventing me from being outside when I get home from work. Time feels like it’s slipping away.
And so even though it’s not June anymore, summer feels like it’s just begun. This song has been on my mind, and spinning in my stereo, quite a bit lately. The Decemberists will be in town this coming week, and I finally decided to bite the bullet and see them again. This song is a big part of what tipped me into the “yes – go for it” category. That, and the use of “panoply” and “barony” in this song. Get a couple of beers in me (the concert’s at a brewery, after all) and I just may find myself shouting “Colin Meloy! I love your vocabulary!”
The Decemberists, June Hymn from The King is Dead
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
