my darling buds of May

These verses celebrate and continually recall a young life. Yet like the youth to whom this sonnet was written by William Shakespeare, all of us will be outlasted by these lines. While we're here, though, what fun we can have!

Sonnet XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.











The next 2 pictures include one of Sol's best friends, Reuben, whose Mummy takes Soli home with them after nursery school on Mondays and Thursdays, when I work at Pecan. The boy in the front of the last picture is Reuben's little brother Ezra, with whom Felix gets along very well.





So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.