Ten Things We Love About Late Summer. And Five We Don’t.

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By Karen and Erica

• Enormous flowers bursting with a summer’s worth of energy and color.
• Tomatoes. And corn. And zucchini.
• Double scoops of ice cream. Strawberry and vanilla. Sugar cones.
• Full moons with names like Buck and Sturgeon and Corn that fill the early evening with limpid light.
• Dinner outside–in a garden, or on a terrace, or at a sidewalk cafe–with friends.
• Floaty clothes–light dresses, wide leg pants, linen tops. And wide-brim hats.
• Plays and movies and concerts en plein air.
• Little rain storms that surprise and cool.
• Early evening baseball games, and Cracker Jack.
• Convertibles. Preferably red. With their tops down. Many bonus points for ’68 Mustangs.

Five things we don’t.

• HHH weather.
• Lanternflies.
• Seeing winter clothes in shop windows.
• That Labor Day marks the end of summer.
• Not having a few more weeks to enjoy what we love about late summer.