Happy Summer Solstice day. I love summer. I really do. Probably because I don't like the mounds of clothes we need to wear to stave off the biting cold of Canadian winter. It's nice to be able to breeze out of the house without a jacket and I long for the days when I can finally fling off my wool socks and run around in sandals. The best part of summer is having the windows wide open and airing out the house. Living on the coast of the Bay of Fundy, in the early summer mornings everything smells crisp with the tang of superoxygenated air as it comes in off the bay. And now the lilacs are in full bloom and add their heady perfume to the air. If light purple had a smell it would be lilac.