I have found three little ladybugs crawling around my room over the past two months and every time I find one it makes me miss summer. It seems so far away, but on days like today where the sky is blue and the air is warm it seems just a little bit closer. I miss afternoons at the farmers market buying flowers and honey and bread and drinking homemade lemonade. Sitting around a fire in the fading evening with peach cigars, strawberry wine, a joint, and good friends. Wearing dresses without tights or socks or boots or coats or sweaters. The lilac bush in my old backyard in full bloom and filling the air with its sweet scent. Reading books and eating peaches under the trees in my hammock. Riding my bike down to the fields or taking long walks through the woods. Taking road trips to parks with hiking trails or the botanical gardens. When my backyard all covered in green, with raspberries, corn, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, strawberries and asparagus growing. All the flowers in full bloom. When the field down by the river is covered in dandelions. Tell me, what are your favorite things about summer? What do you miss most when it is gone?