Summer is here! Yes, HERE...as in "x marks the spot"! Who would have thought that whilst we were still shoveling out the great-white North, the seedlings buried underground were busy doing their seedling business.
And now, as temperatures soar and the skies turn a brilliant blue there is a hazy buzzing that fills the air somewhat sweetly (if you don't think about the fuzzy wood bees that are making that particular music).
"All good things come to those who wait." "Patience is a virtue." "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." "Turn, turn, turn."...and so on...
Basically, I'm saying...it IS summer...officially SUMMER. The summer solstice happened three days ago...soooo-- no take backs!
Cool ideas- not original...but fun: ride bikes, swim in the lake or ocean (if desperate- puddles do count) , catch fireflies, roast marshmallows, build s'mores, go camping, tube a river, lay on the grass and point out bunnies and angels in the clouds (if desperate- anything can look like a rhino), eat a popsicle, have a campfire, teach a child a campfire song, catch a bull-frog or hand that task to a teen-age boy or brave four-year old girl, roll down a grassy hill, star gaze, find beach glass, go fishing, [insert your ideas here].
Whatever you do to celebrate summer- do it with GUSTO and relish the moment!
For... “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” ― Kellie Elmore, “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
