It's Officially Summer

Last day of Spring,

ripe purple plums drop--

form is emptiness.

First day of Summer,

ditch completely dry--

emptiness is form. ~Mike Garofalo

Love is to the heart what the summer 

is to the farmer's year.

It brings to harvest all the loveliest 

flowers of the soul. ~Billy Graham

The serene philosophy of the pink rose is steadying.  Its fragrant, delicate petals open fully and are ready to fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day in the sun.  It is so every summer.  One can almost hear their pink, fragrant murmur as they settle down upon the grass: 'Summer, summer, it will always be summer.' ~Rachel Peden  

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances 

thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, 

who could ask for more? ~Bev Adams

I walk without flinching through the burning 

cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass 

is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire 

that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc