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What would you add? By the wonderful Grace Farris.
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Sitting here in Australia in ugg boots, a million layers of clothes, and fingers wrapped around a hot cuppa, I am reminded just how wide and diverse this lovely community is. It always gives me a chuckle when I read posts like this. While you are choosing strappy dresses and ice cream flavours, I am (literally with the time difference!) adding extra blankets to my bed!
I love everything about summer except the heat. Walks by the lake, ice cream cones, fresh fruits, sunsets, birds singing but unfortunately no fireflies. I miss not seeing them and not sharing my memories of them with my younger brother who passed away.
I’m from a Nordic country and we don’t have fireflies. I was vaguely aware of the concept from pop culture, but never really thought of them as something I would encounter in real life. Then my extended family rented a big house in Italy for a holiday and in the pitch dark of a mediterranean night I woke up to go to the toilet. I was half asleep and as I got out of the bedroom there was suddenly an etheral source of light floating purposefully in the big hall. I freaked out big time. Too afraid to move, I just stood there and for the first and only time in my life thought I was wittnessing something paranormal or an alien life form. I slammed the door and sought for help (probably with a squeal?). My English partner opened the door, said ”that’s a firefly…” and went back to bed.
To me, the most wonderful thing about July in Brooklyn is the firefly population. Seeing fireflies in the city on hot nights is pure magic.
Oh! Lucky you! I used to see fireflies when I was a kid. Beautiful memories. Pure magic as you stated. I moved away and no fireflies in this city.
My 5 year old just picked out a bathing suit in a print called ‘fruit salad.’ Bring on allllll the fruits!
A crispy New Zealand Sauv Blanc on a beautiful sunny-but-perfectly-shaded-patio :)
Wonderful! Tchin! Tchin!
These goggles! My kids are 12 and 9 this year. We just discovered these goggles last summer AFTER YEARS of buying and losing goggles that they never fully liked.
It was like a holy grail situation. We finally found them!
THANK YOU!
Fireflies!
I had one indoors that kept circling the smoke detector with the green light. So sad it didn’t find a friend.
I always look forward to Grace’s cartoons on a Friday afternoon. Great way to kick off the weekend!
Pesto with basil fresh from the garden! Making homemade ice cream. Kids who eat their weight in watermelon!
Just read an article about the best tasting ice cream sandwiches across a wide variety of brands: the winner was Whole Foods’ 365 brand. I picked up a box recently and they are delicious! Uber-vanilla ice cream and the perfect texture chocolate wafer.
Ice cream cones and fireflies! BUT I’m in the southern plains, and our fireflies were done in June. (I never see any after July 1.) I envy anybody who has them all summer. July does bring looonnng, dramatic sunsets, though, and it’s prime blooming season for the crape myrtles, so there’s that.
Long live fireflies and ice cream cones LOL !!!!!!
Watermelon slices
Ice Cream sandwhiches! I keep seeing the video of Ryan Gosling being asked what the best sandwich is and he says Ice Cream. I love it. I’m from the Bay Area and have just started seeing It’s It ice cream sandwiches show up in stores outside of California and I it makes me so happy. I feel like I’m in middle school eating them. Who else loves those?
And fruit suits! I don’t have kids and this is a long shot but in Northern Exposure, Shelly frequently wears a pair of pants that is a colorful fruit pattern and I have been hoping to find something like them for decades now. Why is fruit not a pattern more often?!?!
I love Shelly and her whole vibe ! Her earrings !!!! And everything !!!
Katie Sue! I am a Bay Area ex-pat and JUST bought some It’s Its here in Washington state! I grew up eating them too! They come in minis now as well!
I love this orange print from lucy and yak… https://lucyandyak.com/en-ie/collections/shop-everything/products/original-dungaree-organic-twill-onda-oranges
Oh and these cherries! https://lucyandyak.com/en-ie/collections/all-dungarees/products/reuben-dungaree-organic-twill-morello No affiliation with the brand… I just really like their prints and the couple of pieces I own of theirs are super comfortable.
I have never seen a firefly and it is 100% on my bucket list. I wish we had them on the west coast.
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