Summer is Here

My walk to our mailbox yesterday was under a cloudless sky down an asphalt ribbon of driveway stencilled with a frieze of silhouettes cast by pines, alders, blackberry vines, and long-stemmed daisies and grasses.  The heat shimmered from the paving on only the third official day of summer.  The birds were too loud and the hum of insects too quiet to make it the perfect mid-summer afternoon, but time will cure these defects.  We have set sail on the summer sea here in Humptulips County, and lush, hushed, sun-baked days loom ahead of us like uncharted rocks along an unmapped coast.

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