My granddarlings and I just finished our spring planting, flowers squash, pumpkins, tomatoes and we are looking forward to summer.

I love the long, warm, languid days of summer,

When the sun doesn’t want to leave the sky.

I love to walk and shop and garden in the summer.

Or sit and sip and watch it saunter by.

I love the trappings of the summer.

Sun hats, flip flops, shades and all.

Too soon, I’ll say good bye to summer.

When summer days will shorten into fall.

By Michelle Andrea Bracken