July

About the only person I know who is happy about it being July (already!) is the Birthday Girl-to-be, Ella Dawn.  She will turn 6 on the 23rd and absolutely cannot wait. 

Everyone else, on the other hand, is lamenting the end of June - that magical beginning of the summer months.  June is light and airy, full of the promise of "this year being better than last" for all the flower and vegetable growers.  It is green and lush, has cool mornings and evenings and overall makes one feel young and carefree again - like those first days when school was out for the summer. 

So, here comes July.  Independence Day is always quite wonderful but it seems like the very next day comes the harsher part of summer.  Hotter and more humid mornings and evenings.  Plantings that are beginning to wilt or succumb to diseases.  But probably most of all, I always begin to feel that summer has hit her high spot and from now on it's downhill all the way toward autumn.   Thankfully I do not have these July thoughts every day, in fact most days are still every bit as enjoyable as June's.  

Throughout June, July and August it helps to think of these wise words:

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.  ~Henry James