“July is a blind date with summer”

“July is a blind date with summer” is a July saying that has been printed on many images.
   
Harold “Hal” Borland (1900-1978) wrote the unsigned editorial “July” in the New York (NY) Times on July 3, 1955. This is the last paragraph:
   
“July is get-up-and-go; vacation time, the shore, the lake, the mountains, the country, anywhere but home. July is hot afternoons and sultry nights, and mornings when it’s a joy just to be alive. It’s fresh cherry pie. It’s the first sweet corn. It’s baby beets, well buttered, please. July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass. July is a blind date with summer.”
 
   
Wikipedia: Hal Borland   
Harold “Hal” Glen Borland (May 14, 1900 – February 22, 1978) was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New York Times.
 
3 July 1955, New York (NY) Times, “July,” pg. 6E, col. 4:
July is get-up-and-go; vacation time, the shore, the lake, the mountains, the country, anywhere but home. July is hot afternoons and sultry nights, and mornings when it’s a joy just to be alive. It’s fresh cherry pie. It’s the first sweet corn. It’s baby beets, well buttered, please. July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass. July is a blind date with summer.
 
Newspapers.com
6 July 1955, Kane (PA) Republican, “July,” pg. 4, col. 1:
July is a blind date with summer.
—The New York Times.
       
Google Books
Sundial of the Seasons:
A Selection of Outdoor Editorials
By Hal Borland
Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books and Media
2020 (Originally published 1964)
Pg. 108:
July is a blind date with Summer.
     
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