Summer
The Summer Solstice occurred this past week, on June 21st. It is now officially summer.
I celebrated the onset of summer by planting three dozen perennial flowers to beckon beneficial insects to my vegetable garden. The subsequent days were filled with a deluge of rainstorms. The new plants drank their fill and now stand erect with new buds.
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Summer holds different pleasures for everyone. Some look forward to lazy beach days.
Others relish a vigourous mountain hike.
A backyard BBQ or a picnic in a local park are pleasant past-times.
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
The autumnal Equinox looms in the not-too-distant future. What will fill your summer days?
