Some days it feels as if spring has been skipped entirely and the world has decided to jump straight to summer.  Here, we went from 30 degree freezes straight to 90 degree swelter without ever bothering to explore that middle ground of pleasant 68-75 except on the days that it rains.  While the heat, humidity, and blazing sun are things I don’t like about summer, the thing I do like about summer is that it is melon season.  Not only are melons delicious, you can also carve them into awesome art!

People can put art almost anywhere, can’t they?  The selection is kind of random, as most of the images are of melons carved into flower arrangement kind of things.  However, there is a watermelon recreation of Van Gogh’s Self Portrait With Straw Hat, a geisha girl, and a random baseball player (which is the most fitting, as it’s a summer sport on a summer melon).

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