I Love Summer

There is nothing quite like walking barefoot across a warm sandy beach in summertime. Feeling the soft warm sand between your toes and the gentle breeze in your hair.....

In many gardens Summer is the time for flowers. Over the course of this summer i will be adding more to this page so please bear with me for now.

I love all the vibrant colours of the flowers the reds and golds, yellows and purples and just so beautiful.

If you love flowers Summer is the place to be !

O thou who passest thro' our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,
Oft pitched'st here thy goldent tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
Rode o'er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
Sit down, and in our mossy valleys, on
Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy
Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
Our valleys love the Summer in his pride.

Our bards are fam'd who strike the silver wire:
Our youth are bolder than the southern swains:
Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.