Summer Breeze

See the curtains hanging in the window

In the eve on a Friday night

A small light a-shining through the window

Lets me know every thing's all right

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

~ Seals and Crofts

That's an Orland Park song for me.

It always reminds me of a special point in time -

sitting on the front stoop of our corner home,

looking out over our existence on a summer evening.

It actually did look like summer here today.

High in the 80s with tomorrow at 90!

It was a beautiful even as I strolled round the yard

fertilizing the plants, admiring the hanging baskets

and Calla Lilly that I just planted a day ago

and the thick row of boxwood shrubs that I started

many days ago from little bareroot ArborDay seedlings

and that are finally really growth in this year thick

thanks to all that rain and fertilization,

looking towards a bumper crop of strawberries,

and wait for the Oriental Poppies to give up any day...

Yes, we even own a horse.

It'sanother late night for Jim at the role in the Chicago suburbs.

Last week, he left home on a Wednesday at 6:00 a.m.

and didn't return home until 5:00 a.m. the following day - he worked all

night supervising a project, driving home down the miles of

interstate at 3:00 a.m. arriving home at 5:00 a.m.

Tonight, he won't be home until at least Midnight and then

he has to be up at 5:15 a.m. and get right back up there -

all 160 miles or 2 1/2 hours of driving each way....

Meanwhile, I'm the golden one whostrolled

around the grounds on a summer evening,

and enjoyed the delicious Asian Noodle Salad

that Sarahprepared for our dinner.

Jim hates Chinese food anyway.