I can't sleep…
More than 6,000 people pour into the swimming pool at the Dead Sea tourist resort to avoid summer heat in Suining, China. See more photos and back story here: Chinese Tourists REALLY Love Their Swimming Pool At The ‘Daying Dead Sea’
Photo Source: wsj.com
Notes: Photograph shot by Jean-Daniel Lorieux in Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia which is known for Mediterranean beaches and whitewashed desert towns. Find more of his photos on his Facebook page. (Source: This Isn’t Happiness)
Around us in our shade and hush
Roared summer’s fierce fecundity,
And the sun struck down,
In blare and dazzle, on the myth of the world, but we
Safe in the bourne of distance and shade,
Sat so silent that, from woods coming down
To the whitewashed fence but yards behind me,
I heard the secret murmur and hum
That in earth, on leaf, in air, seethed.
~ Robert Penn Warren, from “Safe in Shade,” Being Here: Poems 1977-1980
Credits:
Source: Birthe Piontek via This Isn’t Happiness. Piontek is a fine art photographer based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Originally from Germany, she moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the University of Essen in Communication Design and Photography.
It was one of those humid days
when the atmosphere gets confused.
Sitting on the porch, you could feel it:
the air wishing it was water.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Image: Richard Clarkson