summer lovin

ah yes!! summer!

today, according to the summer solstice anyway, is the official first day of summer and it's the only day of the year where we get the most daylight hours.

summer. it's a time for slower schedules, long walks on a quiet country road, and being able to hit the snooze button more often. it means watching the acrobatic flower dance of a million honey bees and hummingbirds by day, and marvelling at the rhythmic lightning bug light show by night. it means listening to the harmonic blends of the neighbourhood songbirds and children playing long in to the night.  it means enjoying the nightly orchestra of crickets, whippoorwills, and killdeers. it means being thankful for a soft summer breeze to stir the hot sticky air, and occasionally getting soaked by an unexpected pop-up rain shower. it means sunburns and mosquito bites and bee stings and poison ivy, but it also means the cool soothing goodness of aloe and calamine lotion. it means cannonball splashes and swan dives, raspberry picking and tadpole catching, and watermelon eating and corn shucking. it means impromptu drives to the beach, smelling the pungent sweetness of newly-mowed grass, and enjoying a fresh-off-the-vine tomato sandwich. 

it's also a time for lazing on the front porch, or the gazebo, or down by the creek, it's listening to our kids {when they're home} while we sit at the campfire or in the hot tub. it's a time for cherishing family and time spent together. it's a time for remembering the past, savouring the present, and daydreaming about the future.

ah yes, summer!

blessings