Here we are, in the height of summer. The sun is still high, the gardens are a riot of color, and typically it is quite hot (although we have started the month with cooler temps a quite a bit of rain). If you go off a calendar, it will tell you summer has just really begun, but to me, this is high summer. The days are still stretching out long before us, the sun still high over head, radiating heat down upon our bare skin that compels us to jump in the nearest body of cold water. July is sunshine and heat, tall sunflowers, extra watering in the garden, a lot of harvesting, swimming, and lingering out in the garden late in the last of the evening light.

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