“La Femme” from paruspaper
It’s probably not best to begin a “Happy Summer” post with the one reason I do not like the summer season so much. However, I stood in the hot sun for almost two hours this morning at a grand opening event, so I am really not too fond of the “return of the sun.” Of course, here in the Deep South, it’s been “summer” for a while, so today feels less like the first (full) day of summer and more like midsummer hell (to those of us who do not like the heat).
Thus, I say, “Happy Summer” with a bit of sand and ocean from my Love Notes friend and literary twin, Gina B. (whose favorite season is summer), and a poem by Derek Walcott. “Midsummer, Tobago” perfectly describes early summer (or late spring) in certain parts of the USA and the long days of the (paradoxically) brief summer season.
Midsummer, Tobago
Derek Walcott
Broad sun-stoned beaches.
White heat.
A green river.
A bridge,
scorched yellow palms
from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.
Days I have held,
days I have lost,
days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms.
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HaPpY JOYful summer, Chandra! 🙂
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Happy Summer to you tooooooo!
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Hot Summer in the South OR Frigid Winter in the North. Both give us reasons to be grateful!
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Yep. I don’t like frigid either. I love early autumn weather.
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Spring & Fall are the BEST!!
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Happy summer to you, too! May you somehow find beauty and joy in its smoldering rays.
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Yes. The beauty and air conditioning save us. 🙂
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I am with you on not liking heat. Every year starting June 1st I do a countdown to September.
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I just wait it out indoors. 😀
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Air conditioning is my friend 🤗
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