![desert spirit's fire porch stories – Porch Stories July 2017 highlights](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/2017dsfporchstoriesjuly.png)
• Kristin Taylor's own summary Porch Stories for the month of July convinces us Learning to Linger Longer is "so worth it" for many reasons.
![Expo Line Bergamot station](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/expo697.jpg)
![Pico Library, Santa Monica](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/pico705.jpg)
![Pico Library, Santa Monica](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/pico709.jpg)
![Pico Library, Santa Monica](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/pico710.jpg)
![Pico Library, Santa Monica](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/pico721.jpg)
• Railroads, railways, trolleys, subways, and trams fascinate most people. Current City has an extensive public transportation system comprised of I don't know how many discrete entities that all accept the stored value TAP card. I believe the Expo line is the newest; it's the latest I've enjoyed, all the way from South Central to idyllic Santa Monica. Please note Pico Branch Library's Rainwater Harvest System!
![summer in bloom](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/july729.jpg)
![Dunkin Donuts](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/dunkin732.jpg)
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• A carpet of summer-bright flowers and my first ever West Coast Dunkin Donuts on the 3rd of July. The Coffee Coolatta was as delicious as I remember, and quite a bit less expensive than Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's Ice Blended.
![Gianni Arone's birds art](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/gianni770.jpg)
![Slauson Donuts](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/slauson747.jpg)
![Slauson Donuts](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/slauson761.jpg)
![Slauson donuts](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/slauson769.jpg)
• Public Art sponsored by Slauson Donuts. I love Gianni Arone's art – #SmileSouthCentral!
![fireworks](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/fireworks000.jpg)
• On Fourth of July Independence Day the fireworks came to us. Place where I'm staying had a front row seat to at least 3 or 4 hours. I didn't attempt to take a single picture; I used this one from pixabay.com via pexels.com
![Blueberries](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/suncountry5/julyblubes.jpg)
• We've still been getting almost too many amazingly succulent local blueberries at almost too good a price! I can't wait for my morning cereal every day! Each blueberry is a very little thing; each blueberry represents God's endlessly generous and bountiful gifts from the ground. It's such a berry fruitful way to linger longer.
![Mount Carmel Church](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/mtcarmel806.jpg)
![Mount Carmel Church](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/mtcarmel787.jpg)
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![Mount Carmel Church](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/mtcarmel888.jpg)
![Mount Carmel church piano](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/musics884.jpg)
![Reformation Road Trip six slide](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/reftripsix817.jpg)
![Bible as Protestant Icon?](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/reftripsix896.jpg)
![Mount Carmel Church social hall](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/mtcarmel850.jpg)
![central coast view](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2017/centralcoast910.jpg)
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• I attended the sixth and last episode of the Reformation Road Trip our judicatory sponsored. No. 6 was a fairly long drive north to San Luis Obispo along the central coast of California that languidly stretches alongside the almost always placid Pacific Ocean. So excited that I got asked again to accompany the opening song, "We Eat the Bread of Teaching." I compiled a hymn medley for a prelude—but you already knew that! I captured most of the lecture slides, but included only two.
Porch Stories 15 years: Mercy Roads
• desert spirit's fire blogoversary rolls around {again} on the middle day of every July
![more Milkweed at church](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/2017westwood/milkweed936.jpg)
• More milkweed at church
![Poseidon Adventure song](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/suncountry5/2017morningafter2new.jpg)
• We watched The Poseidon Adventure at the first ever movie night at church.
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• Every 24 July the state of Utah makes a huge deal of Pioneer Day with parades, BBQs and fireworks. Placeholder is a nudge to myself to design something.
![national ice cream month](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/summer_2015/icecreamonth.jpg)
• Just like desert spirit's fire's blogoversary, National Ice Cream Month rolls around every July, but for the entire month—not just a single day out of 31...
![porch stories button](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/citysafari/covers5/porchstories188.png)
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