Hello and welcome!!!
By the calendar it is not yet summer, but by my thermometer it is almost 90 degrees fahrenheit! It feels like summer. I was out pulling weeds today, sharing breathing room with a bumble bee and a honey bee, both humming around my shrubs. My flowers are blooming.
I'm throwing caution to the wind and trying a tomato plant again this year. The last few times I've tried have been disasters. So... this time I'm reading about tomato needs. I don't remember ever having these problems in my younger years. Have tomatoes changed? Have I? Or is it the half barrel I'm trying to grow them in? Wish me luck.
Summer is not my favorite season, I'm a cool weather person, but summer does have its pleasures. I love the fresh snap peas from my garden, the brilliant red geraniums, walks in the cool evening air. I love to watch embers glow in our fire pit and to hear the geese just overhead as they wing down to the river.
Summer can offer more time to read, and I have read some favorites lately. I highly recommend:
Great Short Works of Willa Cather edited by Robt. K. Miller
Favorites:
Eric Hermannson's Soul
A Wagner Matinee
The Bohemian Girl
Neighbor Rosicky
For my book group I chose:
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
early responses: enchanting... a treasure
Because we're approaching the 250th anniversary of our country:
1776 by David McCullough
fascinating history
Most anything by Gary Paulsen:
Brian's Winter
Dogsong
I wish you a good summer, good reading, good rest for your soul.
Thanks to Ramona Behnke for hosting this month and for providing this prompt. Please find her post and links to others HERE.
For everything there is a season... Ecclesiastes 3:1.
