In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky....

 My girl Carmen:

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” 

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"..





































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