Thursday Thirteen

Great things about summer:

1. Vine-ripened tomatoes from your very own garden. A tomato and mayonnaise sandwich is hard to beat.

2. Locally grown Concord grapes. They have taste and are better than anything shipped from ... wherever it is they come from.

3. Cucumbers from your very own garden. A little vinegar and yum. They actually have taste!

4. Locally grown watermelon. Again, there's that taste thing.

5. Locally grown peaches. The peach crop is a little thin this year, thanks to a bad freeze, but they are delicious if you can find them.

6. Balmy evenings when you can sit outside and listen to the crickets, the tree frogs and the cows and never reach for a sweater.

7. Thunderstorms. (I like them, usually.)

8. Longer days.

9. Hot mornings when you sweat just walking out for the newspaper.

10. Fawns frolicking in the field beside the house.

11. Light breezes.

12. Slow moving rivers.

13. Flowers blooming in the yard.