Get Ready for Summer Daze

June 21st is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It heralds the beginning of summer! Do you remember when you were a child, wishing away your life and counting the school days until summer vacation? It seemed like forever, but summer always came. It was a time of wondrous discoveries, a time to use our imagination, have adventures with our friends and to enjoy what nature had to offer. Time stood still on these summer days. Listed here are some verses about summer - maybe they’ll bring back some fond “Summer Daze” memories for you.

• The summer that I was ten – can it be there was only one Summer that I was ten? ~ May Swenson.

• But thy eternal summer shall not fade. ~ William Shakespeare.

• That beautiful season, the Summer! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

• In winter, I get up at night and dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson.

• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus.

• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? ~ Steven Wright.

• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~ James Dent.