the decadent pleasure of summer

The weather outside may look like January â€" heavy grey clouds; rain on the freeway that makes the truck to our right loom larger with its spray; nippy air â€" but it really is June. The light, no matter how dim, is lingering longer into the evening than it did a month before. All the stores advertise sales for dad and grad. And just this morning, at the Market, I saw the first cherries grown in Washington State available for sale. It’s finally starting to be summer. I’ve been thinking about su