🇺🇸🧨💙📯 Happy 250th Birthday, America!! 📯💙🧨🇺🇸
{Cyd Charisse | Photographed by: Clarence Sinclair Bull | MGM Publicity Department | 1945 | Pinned HERE}
Tag: Fourth of July (page 1 of 3)
Hello, July! You come on the downward rollercoaster spiral of a serious heatwave we’ve had here in Merry Ol’ England and it looks like you shall be bringing some warm weather with you as well.
We’re ready for the BIG 250th Anniversary Fourth of July celebrations we’re going to have this year, we’re ready for school to now start to officially wind down for the summer, although, there is still lots to do. We’re ready for our annual Christmas in July party and all the fun that brings.
We’re ready to have mixed fruit cobblers for dinner with heaping scoops of vanilla ice cream in this warmer weather. We’re ready for long walks in shady spots, drinking in the breeze along the water.
We’re ready for weekend afternoon board games on the balcony with good snacks and frosty drinks. We’re ready for evenings spent on the glider, moving back and forth while watching the moon rise and listening to the birds sing their evening song.
We’re ready for the adventures that we have planned and for the adventures that we don’t know are waiting for us to discover them. Welcome, July! We are ready to greet YOU with arms open WIDE!
{“Watermelon Slice on the Beach” | Tatsuro Kiuchi | Pinned HERE}
🧨 Happy 4th of July! 🧨
{Barbara Anderson of “Ironside” poses for a Fourth of July Pin-up | 1967 | Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}
Hello, July! You’ve marched in hand in hand with the ongoing heat wave. Which we’re taking in our stride with lots of ice water and ice cream sandwiches on standby. We’re ready for the blessed event that you herald in near the end of the month, when you’ll utter those four magic words: SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!
We’re ready for banana splits for dinner on hot summer nights. We’re ready to stay up late watching old movies with our projector. We’re ready for early morning walks when the air is still and the world is still asleep.
We’re ready for our annual Fourth of July celebrations; our table is already decked out in red, white and blue for the occasion.
We’re ready to celebrate “Christmas in July” with a gaggle of loved ones. We’re ready to keep beach music grooving long into the night while we dance and talk.
We’re ready for those heady days of summer that you bring where the hot air is filled with the smell of honeysuckles and we revert somehow to childhood, where the possibilities of FUN are endless and the days seamlessly blend into one another.
Welcome, July! We’re ready for all the magic that you hold for us!
{Audrey Hepburn at “La Paisible“ in Tolochenaz, Switzerland | Photographed by Andrew Wald | 1967 | Pinned HERE}
🧨 Happy Fourth of July!! 🧨
{Carole Landis (1919 – 1948) posing by a US flag | circa 1944 | Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello, July! We’re ready for you to usher in the last month of the school year and bring us one step closer to being able to beat to our own rhythm for a little while with no set schedules.
We’re ready for our annual Fourth of July celebrations with hamburgers and my Nana’s macaroni salad and homemade hot fudge sundaes for dessert while we watch “JAWS” in the dark.
We’re ready for our Christmas in July celebrations and the festivities that surround that. A Christmas menu with a summer twist, Christmas movies, Christmas music and we are still deciding on the Christmas dessert menu for this year!
We’re already eating our weight in your summer fruit bounty, but we haven’t yet had the perfect tomato sandwich, so that is still to come. We’re ready to bake pies out of all the fruit we can’t manage to eat in time with heaps of vanilla ice cream on top.
We’re ready for our days to stretch out ahead of us where we simply read books and stack the record player and listen to music. We’re ready to continue dancing in the kitchen long after the sun has set and relish in our late night movie dates, while the curtains dance in the breeze from the open windows behind us.
Welcome, July! We’re ready for all that you bring!
{Keep Your Cool, Slim Aarons, 1978 | “Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco.” | Pinned HERE}
🇺🇸🧨✨ Happy Fourth of July! ✨🧨🇺🇸
{Promotional portrait of American actor Sally Field sitting on a wooden surfboard with an American flag and eating a watermelon, for the television series, “Gidget”, circa 1965. | Photo by ABC Television/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello, July! We’re ready for all the fun you bring this month, starting with our “Fourth of July” celebrations and watching “JAWS” in the dark. We’re ready for our “Christmas in July” party to follow not long after the 4th, where Christmas gets a summer makeover.
We’re ready for the school year to come to a close and with that, the chance to visit with family that we have not seen in many, many moons. We’re ready for those lazy hazy days of summer that you will bring. Eating cherries while reading books, dipping our toes in the cool ocean water and feasting on homemade ice cream for dinner on hot summer nights.
We’re ready for pimento cheese sandwiches and salty potato chip dinners on the beach and marshmallows roasted to within an inch of their life before being smooshed between chocolate coated cookies for dessert.
We’re ready to keep grooving to the 70’s and 80’s music that has so far been the soundtrack of our summer. We’re ready for the few adventures we have planned before you come to a close. Welcome, July! We’re ready for all that you bring.
{4th of July Bar | Paige Spearin}
🇺🇸🧨✨ Happy Fourth of July! ✨🧨🇺🇸
{Carolyn Jones, July 4, 1960 | Allstar Picture Library Limited | Alamy Stock Photo | Pinned HERE}
Well, HELLO, July! This month you bring with you the end of the school year and boy are we ready for that! We’re ready for our Fourth of July celebrations and watching JAWS in the dark after dinner. We’re ready for our Christmas in July party with a summer twist and watching old Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music and just generally feasting on Christmas happiness.
We’re ready for the luxury of more warm days and chances to go swimming. We’re ready to eat our weight in all the gorgeous fruit that is in-season at the moment. We’re ready to make pies out of the fresh blueberries and cherries we’ve been greedily gobbling up, topped with a big scoop of homemade ice cream.
We’re ready for lazy summer weekends in which we get to read on the beach and pack a picnic for lunch of ham sandwiches with heirloom tomatoes, salty potato chips and a thermos of iced tea. We’re ready for cheeseburgers and fresh corn on the cob from the greengrocers, smothered in butter and each bite has juices running down our chins.
We’re ready to continue to dance to the 60’s and 70’s soundtrack of our summer that has us in quite the groove lately. We’re ready to watch evening fall as the breeze blows the curtains in the open window and we just get to sit and be. Welcome, July, we’re ready for all that you bring.
{Image: “Maggie in snorkeling gear”, October 1958, Montego bay, Jamaica. From the third of three small “ektachrome transparencies” boxes, this set labeled “personal fair great / our wedding” by Nick DeWolf | Found via Messy Nessy | Pinned HERE}