This four-day weekend has come to an end.  

I absolutely love my summer teaching schedule which is generally 12 to 13 hours each on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.  It sounds grueling, but it is not. I get the teaching week over in three days, and then I have four days to devote to yardwork, writing, spending time with my dogs, traveling here and there, photographing to my heart’s delight, and if I so choose, relaxing.  I can relax and take naps any time, but during the summer months, I hate wasting a minute inside.

Right now I am relaxing in my Adirondack chair on the deck, listening to the distant thunder, watching the skylight up, feeling a few drops of rain, and delighting in the instrumental chorus of two windchimes doing their thing.

  
It’s the perfect way to end a Sunday evening after a full weekend of eight graduation parties, two parties, several breakfasts and lunches, yardwork, laundry, and housework.

It was such a beautiful weekend.